Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Description:

xiv, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Planning, history and environment series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Risks, resilience, and planning in Asian cities / Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes -- Uneven geographies of vulnerability : Tokyo in the twenty-first century / André Sorensen -- The Dragon's head : spatial development of Shanghai / Susan Walcott -- Beijing : socialist Chinese capital and new world city / Gu Chaolin and Ian G. Cook -- Taipei's metropolitan development : dynamics of cross-strait political economy, globalization, and national identity / Liling Huang and Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok -- Seoul as a world city : the challenge of balanced development / Seong-Kyu Ha -- Hong kong : the turning of the dragon head / Anthony Yeh -- Singapore : planning for more with less / Belinda Yuen -- Going global : development, risks, and responses in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya / Sirat Morshidi and Asyirah Abdul Rahim -- Governing the Jakarta city-region : history, challenges, risks, and strategies / Wilmar Salim and Tommy Firman -- Bangkok : new risks, old resilience / Douglas Webster and Chuthatip Maneepong -- Manila : metropolitan vulnerability, local resilience / Brian Roberts.

Summary:

In 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 and global aspirations have been intertwined and expressed in the built environment. Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai have played key, sometimes competing, roles in China's rapid economic growth. Bangkok's amenity economy is currently threatened by political instability, while Jakarta and Manila are the core city-regions of less developed countries with sluggish economies and significant unrealized potential.

ISBN:

9780415563352 (alk. paper)
0415563356 (alk. paper)
9780203804247 (ebook)
0203804244 (ebook)

Subject:

City planning Asia.
Community development, Urban Asia.
Développement communautaire urbain Asie.
City planning.
Community development, Urban.
Städtebau.
Stadtentwicklung.
Asia.
Asien.

Added entries:

Hamnett, Stephen.
Forbes, D. K. (Dean K.)
Planning, history, and the environment series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277980
Call No.: BIB 213264
Status: Available