Planning Asian cities : risks and resilience / edited by Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamnett, Stephen.

Forbes, D. K. (Dean K.)

Series:

Planning, history, and the environment series.

Planning, history and environment series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Asia.

City planning.

Community development, Urban--Asia.

Community development, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region's most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia's major cities.They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. Tokyo is an archetypal world city. Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul have acquired world city characteristics. Taipei and Kuala Lumpur have been at the centre of expanding economies in which nationalism

Contents:

Front Cover; Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience; Copyright Page; Contents; Editors and Contributors; 1. Risks, Resilience and Planning in Asian Cities: Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes; 2. Uneven Geographies of Vulnerability: Tokyo in the Twenty-First Century: André Sorensen; 3. The Dragon's Head: Spatial Development of Shanghai: Susan Walcott; 4. Beijing: Socialist Chinese Capital and New World City: Gu Chaolin and Ian G. Cook; 5. Taipei's Metropolitan Development: Dynamics of Cross-Strait Political Economy, Globalization and National Identity: Liling Huang and Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok

6. Seoul as a World City: The Challenge of Balanced Development: Seong-Kyu Ha7. Hong Kong: The Turning of the Dragon Head: Anthony Yeh; 8. Singapore: Planning for More with Less: Belinda Yuen; 9. Going Global: Development, Risks and Responses in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Sirat Morshidi and Asyirah Abdul Rahim; 10. Governing the Jakarta City-Region: History, Challenges, Risks and Strategies: Wilmar Salim and Tommy Firman; 11. Bangkok: New Risks, Old Resilience: Douglas Webster and Chuthatip Maneepong; 12. Manila: Metropolitan Vulnerability, Local Resilience: Brian Roberts; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-63926-8

1-280-69905-1

9786613676023

1-136-63927-6

0-203-80424-4

9780203804247

OCLC:

784881808