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Mega cities mega challenge : informal dynamics of global change insights from dhaka, bangladesh and pearl river delta, china / edited by Frauke Kraas, 5 others.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Bangladesh--Dhaka.
- City planning.
- Urbanization--Bangladesh--Dhaka.
- Urbanization.
- City planning--China--Pearl River Delta.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Stuttgart, Germany : Borntraeger Science Publishers, [2019]
- Summary:
- Megacities are gaining importance as hubs of globalisation processes in a world increasingly dominated by cities. A deeper understanding of the multiple causes and drivers of their development is needed in order to shape the global urban transformation towards sustainability. The interdisciplinary research programme "Megacities - Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change" aimed at understanding the connections between informal mega-urban processes and global change by investigating the situation in the two mega-urban areas of the Pearl River Delta/China and Dhaka/Bangladesh. The research focused on processes and interactions in four fields with high development dynamics and social relevance: new forms of governance and self-organisation, differentiation of urban economies, dynamics of matter and resource flows, and informal settlement development.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 3-443-01108-X
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