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Challenges to Asian urbanization in the 21st century /

1402015763

1402025319

6610148406

9781402015762

9781402025310

9786610148400

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Challenges to Asian urbanization in the 21st century /

[Book]

edited by Ashok K. Dutt [and others].

Boston :

Kluwer Academic Publishers,

©2003.

1 online resource (xv, 288 pages) :

illustrations, maps.

GeoJournal library ;

v. 75

Consists mainly of papers presented at the 6th Asian Urbanization Conference held in Chennai (Madras) in 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Contents -- Chapter 1 CHALLENGES TO ASIAN URBANIZATION IN THE 21st CENTURY: AN INTRODUCTION -- CHALLENGES IN THE INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK -- NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF URBANIZATION -- NEW TRENDS IN GLOBALIZATION -- MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF 21ST CENTURY ASIAN URBANIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2 A HALF-CENTURY OF THE WORLD CITY: ASIAN AND AFRICAN CITIES -- THE PRESENT GLOBAL SYSTEM OF MAJOR CITIES -- GROWTH OF LARGEST WORLD CITIES -- ASIAN AND AFRICAN WORLD CITIES -- GROWTH OF AFRICAN AND ASIAN URBANIZATION -- WHAT OF THE FUTURE? -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3 POST-COLONIAL CITIES IN THE GLOBAL ERA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MUMBAI AND ACCRA -- THE LITERATURE ON POST-COLONIAL CITIES -- POST-COLONIAL CITIES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY: FOUR PHASES -- IDENTIFYING AND MEASURING CORPORATE ACTIVITY -- ACCRA AND BOMBAY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- ACCRA AND MUMBAI IN THE GLOBAL ERA -- CONCLUSIONS: A MODEL FOR THE GLOBAL ERA? -- Chapter 4 COLOMBO AND THE PATTERN OF SOUTH ASIAN AND PORT CITY MODELS -- AMERICAN URBAN MORPHOLOGY MODELS -- SOUTH ASIAN URBAN MORPHOLOGY MODELS -- RECENT APPROACHES TO SOUTH ASIAN CITY MODELS -- PORT CITY MODELS -- THE CASE OF COLOMBO -- NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOMBO AS ANALYSED BY SOUTH ASIAN AND PORT CITY MODELS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5 THE DEVELOPMENT OF HILL STATIONS AS URBAN CENTERS -- BACKGROUND -- HISTORY OF THE INDIAN HILL STATIONS -- THE AMERICAN "HILL STATION" -- SELECTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF HILL STATIONS -- CLIMATES OF THE HILL STATIONS -- DISCUSSION OF AMERICAN HILL STATIONS -- INDIAN HILL STATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6 COMMUNICATIVE PLANNING PRACTICE IN AN UNDEMOCRATIC SOCIETY:HONG KONG CASE -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- THE CHOICE OF HONG -KONG -- TWO PROBLEM CASES -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 7 CENTRAL PLANNING AND MARKET ELEMENTS IN VIETNAM'S ECONOMY -- HISTORICAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BACKGROUND, 1954-1975 -- SHORT-LIVED FULL FLEDGED CENTRAL PLANNING, 1975-1986 -- THE WORKING OF MARKET ELEMENTS IN REFORMING SOCIALISM: 1986-1999 -- SETTING GOALS FOR 2020 AND BEYOND -- Chapter 8 RECENT PLANNING STRATEGIES IN JERUSALEM -- GROWTH OF RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS -- UNIFICATION AND PARTITION PLANS -- PLANNING FOR POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS -- PLANNING JERUSALEM AT THE BEGINNING OF 2000 -- Chapter 9 INDIAN CITIES A SPATIO-TEMPORAL, FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF INDIAN CITIES -- THE CASE OF INDIA -- EMPLOYMENT IN CLASS I CITIES, 1901-1991 -- METHODOLOGY -- RESULTS AND ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 10 AMBIENT AIR QUALITY IN DELHI 1988-1994: A SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS -- AIR POLLUTION -- DATA AND METHODOLOGY -- ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION -- COMPARISON OF VALUES WITH STANDARDS -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 11 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND HEALTH: URBAN GROWTH AND HEALTH RISKS IN PONDICHERRY -- URBANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES -- URBAN PONDICHERRY: UNCONTROLLED GROWTH -- RESEARCHING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 12 POLLUTION PARAMETERS IN ASIAN CITIES -- POLLUTION PROBLEMS IN ASIAN CITIES -- THREE CASE STUDIES -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 13 MITIGATING R.

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"This book is of relevance to researchers and students working in the fields of social geography, Asian studies, urban economics, urban and regional planning and social issues."--BOOK JACKET.

Challenges to Asian urbanization in the 21st century.

1402015763

Challenges to Asian urbanization in the twenty first century

Urban policy-- Asia, Congresses.

Urbanization-- Asia, Congresses.

Politique urbaine.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- Urban.

Urban policy.

Urbanisatie.

Urbanisation.

Urbanization.

Verstädterung

Asia.

Asie.

Asien

Madras 2000

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SOC-- 026030

Dutt, Ashok K.

Asian Urbanisation Conference(6th :2000 :, Madras, India)

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