The Great Urban Transition : Landscape and Environmental Changes from Siberia, Shanghai, to Saigon / by Peilei Fan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fan, Peilei, author.

Series:

Landscape Series, 1875-1210 ; 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape ecology.

Geography.

Urban ecology (Biology).

Management.

Ecology.

Landscape Ecology.

Urban Ecology.

Environmental Sciences.

Local Subjects:

Landscape Ecology.

Geography.

Urban Ecology.

Management.

Environmental Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2022.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.

Summary:

This monograph examines the (sub)urbanization process of seven transitional economies in Southeast, East, and North Asia (SENA), i.e., Siberia of Russia in North Asia, China and Mongolia in East Asia, and Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. In ten chapters, great urban transformation occurred in SENA is discussed, as well as the transitional period which aggravated urban environments in SENA cities and how ‘institutional shift,’ enabled by movements of urban residents and transitional urban governance, may facilitate the process and improve the urban environmental condition. This book includes land cover and land use data derived from satellite images over the past thirty years and intensive field research in more than thirty cities exploring the rise of these great cities and their environmental challenges. Unlike in western countries, the current urbanization process in Asian transitional economies is a hybrid product of market logic and state legacy and intervention, with these influences sometimes conflicting and at other times enhancing each other, under intensified globalization. This book is of interest to researchers and students interested in landscape, urban studies, environment studies in particularly Asia, as well as planners and policy makers.

Contents:

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Why Study Urbanization in Southeast, East, and North Asia (SENA)?

Chapter 2. The Research Design

Part II. Land and Population

Chapter 3. Urban Land Transition

Chapter 4. Urban Population Dynamics

Part III. Urban Environmental Challenges

Chapter 5. Urban Air Pollution

Chapter 6. Urban Green Space

Part IV. Driving Urbanization: The Visible Hand of the State

Chapter 7. Governing the Land

Chapter 8. Transforming Urban Planning

Chapter 9. From Planning to the Change of Urban Landscape

Chapter 10. Conclusion

Postface.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Print version: Fan, Peilei The Great Urban Transition

ISBN:

9783031059575

OCLC:

1343908963