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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ira M. RobinsonPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.600kg ISBN: 9780774805483ISBN 10: 077480548 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 01 January 1995 Audience: Adult education , Further / Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsMaps and Figures Preface Acknowledgments Part 1: Overview and Issues 1. Metrofitting the Emerging Mega-Urban Regions of ASEAN: AnOverview 2. Mega-Urbanization in ASEAN: New Phenomenon or Transitional Phaseto the 'Los Angeles World City'? Part 2: Processes Creating Mega-Urban Regions inASEAN 3. Global Interdependence and Urbanization: Planning for the BangkokMega-Urban Region 4. Emerging Spatial Patterns in ASEAN Mega-Urban Regions:Alternative Strategies 5. ASEAN Urban Housing Sector Performance: A ComparativePerspective 6. Housing Women Factory Workers in the Northern Corridor of theBangkok Metropolitan Region 7. Moving Goods, People, and Information: Putting the ASEANMega-Urban Regions in Context 8. Gridlock in the Slopopolis: Congestion Management and SustainableDevelopment 9. The Roles and Contributions of the Private Sector inEnvironmental Management in ASEAN Mega-Urban Regions 10. The Governance of Mega-Urban Regions 11. Developing Management Responses for Mega-Urban Regions Part 3: Case Studies of ASEAN Mega-UrbanRegions 12. The Johor-Singapore-Riau Growth Triangle: The Effect of EconomicIntegration 13. The Metro Manila Mega-Region 14. Problems and Challenges of Mega-Urban Regions in Indonesia: TheCase of Jabotabek and the Bandung Metropolitan Area 15. Challenges of Superinduced Development: The Mega-Urban Region ofKuala Lumpur-Klang Valley 16. The Bangkok Metropolitan Region: Policies and Issues in theSeventh Plan Part 4: Conclusions and Policy Implications 17. ASEAN Mega-Urbanization: A Synthesis References Contributors IndexReviewsAn important and timely book on a subject eliciting growing attention and development implication worldwide. Every student of urbanization in Asia should read this well-balanced work. -- Yue-Man Yeung * Pacific Affairs * Overall, Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia makes an important contribution to the literature.... the editors have done a very good job of linking the papers and providing useful overview and synthesis chapters. -- David E. Dowall * Urban Studies, vol. 35, No. 4, 779-793, 1998 * My overall assessment of the book is very positive. Its various sections come together very well and it contains a great deal of useful information about an internationally significant regional development form. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in regional and national development, urban geography, and political as well as sociocultural change in Southeast Asia. -- Frank J. Costa, Dept of Geography and Planning, The University of Akron * Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 37, No. 3, 1997 * My overall assessment of the book is very positive. Its various sections come together very well and it contains a great deal of useful information about an internationally significant regional development form. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in regional and national development, urban geography, and political as well as sociocultural change in Southeast Asia. -- Frank J. Costa, Dept of Geography and Planning, The University of Akron Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 37, No. 3, 1997 An important and timely book on a subject eliciting growing attention and development implication worldwide. Every student of urbanization in Asia should read this well-balanced work. -- Yue-Man Yeung Pacific Affairs Overall, Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia makes an important contribution to the literature... the editors have done a very good job of linking the papers and providing useful overview and synthesis chapters. -- David E. Dowall Urban Studies, vol. 35, No. 4, 779-793, 1998 Author InformationT.G. McGee is a professor in the Department ofGeography at the University of British Columbia and Director of itsInstitute of Asian Research. Ira M. Robinson isprofessor emeritus of urban planning at the University of Calgary. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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