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The extended metropolis : settlement transition in Asia / edited by Norton Ginsburg, Bruce Koppel, T.G. McGee. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metropolitan areas--Asia--Congresses.
- Metropolitan areas.
- Urbanization--Asia--Congresses.
- Urbanization.
- Urban agriculture--Asia--Congresses.
- Urban agriculture.
- Regional planning--Asia--Congresses.
- Regional planning.
- Metropolitan areas--Congresses--Asia.
- Urbanization--Congresses--Asia.
- Urban agriculture--Congresses--Asia.
- Regional planning--Congresses--Asia.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 339 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Asian urbanization is entering a new phase that differs significantly from the patterns of city growth experienced in other developing countries and in the developed world. According to a recent hypothesis, zones of intensive economic interaction between rural and urban activities are emerging. The zones appear to be a new form of socioeconomic organization that is neither rural nor urban, but preserves essential ingredients of each. The landscapes in these extended metropolitan zones have changed little over decades. Most people live in villages, and almost all of the land is under cultivation. However, most income now comes from non-agricultural sources. Village and small-town industries provide employment for some family members, who help out in the fields only at planting or harvesting time. Others commute to jobs in the central cities. Still others live in the cities and their satellites, remitting portions of their salaries to the family. This study elaborates on this hypothesis through studies of urban areas in China, India, Indonesia and Japan. Contributors offer different perspectives from a variety of disciplines including geography, regional planning, sociology, economics and public administration. All seek to determine how rapidly, under what circumstances, and on what scale the extended metropolis is emerging.
- Contents:
- Emergence of Desakota regions in Asia / T.G. McGee
- Extended metropolitan regions in Asia / Norton Ginsburg
- Rural-urban dichotomy reexamined / Bruce Koppell
- Extended metropolis in Asia / G. Shabbir Cheema
- Metropolitan interlocking region in China / Zhou Yixing
- China's urbanization in an Asian context / C.W. Pannell, Gregory Veeck
- Rural nonagricultural development in an extended metropolitan region / Yok-Shiu F. Lee
- Regional variations in employment and income in Jiangsu Province / Gregory Veeck
- Waste economy and the dispersed metropolis in China / J.B.R. Whitney
- Urban growth and employment in Taiwan / Paul K.C. Liu, H.H. Tsai
- Persistence of agriculture in urban Japan / Gil Latz
- Planning for environmental sustainability in the extended Jakarta metropolitan region / M. Douglass
- Dispersed metropolis in Asia / Neil Jamieson
- Extended metropolitan areas / Satyesh C. Chakraborty.
- Notes:
- Papers from a conference held Sept. 1988 under the auspices of the Environment and Policy Institute of the East-West Center.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8248-4190-5
- 0-585-30143-3
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