Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Forbes, D. K. (Dean K.)
• Hamnett, Stephen.

Description

xiv, 330 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Planning, history and environment series

Uniform Title

Planning, history, and the environment series.

Subject

• City planning > Asia
• Community development, Urban > Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780415563352 (hb : alk. paper)
• 0415563356 (hb : alk. paper)
• 9780203804247 (ebook)
• 0203804244 (ebook)

LCCN

• 2011009976
• 40019632461

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries