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Title

Mega-urban regions in Pacific Asia : urban dynamics in a global era / edited by Gavin W. Jones & Mike Douglass.

Publication

Singapore : NUS Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Jones, Gavin W.
• Douglass, Mike

Description

xxiv, 376 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

The rapid urban transition now underway in asia focuses on a limited number of mega-urban regions (MURs) that have reached population sizes in excess of 10 million people. Southeast Asia contains four urban conglomerates of the sort that this study characterizes as Mega-Urban Regions - Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh. These locations are examined in this book, along with Taipei and Shanghai. Because the administrative boundaries of the cities at the core of these zones do not include the entire urban area, the significance of the broader urban community has largely escaped scholarly attention. The authors base their analysis on actual agglomeration size rather than administrative boundaries, and draw on unpublished census data to study the dynamics of these massive urban zones, considering area and population size as well as social and demographic patterns of change in core, inner and outer zones. They conclude that these mega-urban regions continue to increase their share of national populations, and zones immediately beyond the official metropolitan boundaries are where the most dramatic changes are occurring.

Subject

• Migration, Internal > Asia
• Asia > Population
• Asia > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-371) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction/Gavin Jones and Mike Douglass -- 2. The Morphology of Mega-Urban Regions Expansion/ Mike Douglass and Gavin Jones -- 3. Comparative Dynamics of the Six Mega-Urban Regions/ Gavin Jones -- 4. Bangkok -- Globalising the City of Angels/ Jarunun Sutiorapa, Preeya Mithranon, Paranee Watana and Chanpen Taesrikul -- 5. Jakarta -- Dynamics of Change and Livability/ Si Gde Made Mamas and Rizky Komalasari -- 6. The Manila MUR: Continuing Magnet for Migrants/ Rachel H. Racelis and Paula Monina G. Collado -- 7. The Mega-Urban Transformations of Ho Chi Minh City in the Era of Doi Moi Renovation/ Dang Nguyen Anh -- 8. Taipei -- Post-industrial Globalisation/ Li-ling Huang -- 9. The Resurgence of Shanghai and Its Demographic and Employment Changes in the 1990s/ Yu Zhu -- 10. The Livability of Mega-Urban Regions in Southeast Asia -- Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta and Manila Compared/ Mike Douglass, Trung Quang Le, Cameron Kawika Lowry, Hao Thien Nguyen, Anh Nguyen Pham, Nghi Dong Thai and Hernani Yulinawati -- 11. Mega-Urban Region Dynamics in Comparative Perspective/ Mike Douglass and Gavin Jones.

ISBN

• 9789971693794 (pbk.)
• 9971693798 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 213300083
• SCSB-12751093

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library