Future Challenges of Cities in Asia /

Future Challenges of Cities in Asia / / ed. by Rabé, Gregory Bracken, R. Parthasarathy, Neha Sami, Bing Zhang.

Since 1978 China's urbanization has risen from 18 to 45 per cent, over 350 million farmers have moved to cities or transformed their villages into towns, and the number of cities rose from under 200 to more than 650. These numbers are unprecedented in the course of human history and underscore...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Antweiler, Christoph,
Arkaraprasertkul, Non,
Bracken, Gregory,
Chaves, Carmeli Marie C.,
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina,
Li, Shiqiao,
Liu, Wan,
Marks, Danny,
Mell, Ian,
Musil, Clément,
Parthasarathy, R.,
Qu, Lei,
Rabé, Paul,
Sami, Neha,
Simarmata, Hendricus Andy,
Zhang, Bing,
HerausgeberIn:
Bracken, Gregory,
Parthasarathy, R.,
Rabé, ,
Sami, Neha,
Zhang, Bing,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Asian Cities ; 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 1 Future Challenges of Cities in Asia
  • 2 Human Agency in the Asian City
  • 3 Toward Inclusive, Vital and Livable City Scenarios
  • 4 Cultural Dilemma in Beijing's Urban Regeneration
  • 5 Housing as Heritage
  • 6 Not an Act of God
  • 7 The Political Ecology of Climate Injustice in Bangkok
  • 8 Assessing Flood-Related Vulnerability of the Urban Poor
  • 9 The Ecological Future of Cities
  • 10 Hong Kong's "Rail-plus-Property" Development
  • Index

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