The Extended Metropolis : : Settlement Transition in Asia / / ed. by T.G. McGee, Bruce Koppel, Norton Ginsburg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Chakraborty, Satyesh C.,; Douglass, M.,; Ginsburg, Norton,; Jamieson, Neil,; Koppel, Bruce,; Latz, Gil,; Lee, Yok-Shiu F.,; Liu, Paul K. C.,; Mcgee, T. G.,; Pannell, C. W.,; Shabbir Cheema, G.,; Tsai, H. H.,; Veeck, Gregory,; Whitney, J . B. R.,; Yixing, Zhou,
• HerausgeberIn: Ginsburg, Norton,; Koppel, Bruce,; McGee, T.G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Emergence of Desakota Regions in Asia: Expanding a Hypothesis -- Chapter 2 Extended Metropolitan Regions in Asia: A New Spatial Paradigm -- Chapter 3 The Rural-Urban Dichotomy Reexamined: Beyond the Ersatz Debate? -- Chapter 4 The Extended Metropolis in Asia: Implications for Urban Management -- Part II: Perspectives from China -- Chapter 5 The Metropolitan Interlocking Region in China: A Preliminary Hypothesis -- Chapter 6 China's Urbanization in an Asian Context: Forces for Metropolitanization -- Chapter 7 Rural Nonagricultural Development in an Extended Metropolitan Region: The Case of Southern Jiangsu -- Chapter 8 Regional Variations in Employment and Income in Jiangsu Province -- Chapter 9 The Waste Economy and the Dispersed Metropolis in China -- Chapter 10 Urban Growth and Employment in Taiwan -- Part III: Studies of Japan, India, and Java -- Chapter 11 The Persistence of Agriculture in Urban Japan: An Analysis of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area -- Chapter 12 Planning for Environmental Sustainability in the Extended Jakarta Metropolitan Region -- Chapter 13 The Dispersed Metropolis in Asia: Attitudes and Trends in Java -- Chapter 14 Extended Metropolitan Areas: A Key to Understanding Urban Processes in India -- INDEX