The city in Southeast Asia
Subtitle: patterns, processes, and policy
By: Peter J. Rimmer and Howard Dick.
Contributors: Dick, H. W.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780824833138
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Southeast Asia; Urbanization -- Southeast Asia; Globalization
Description: "The City in Southeast Asia explores ways of moving beyond outmoded paradigms of the Third World City. It does this by examining urban patterns: the global cities of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur; the national cities of Bangkok, Jakarta, and Manila; and the second cities of Chiang Mai, Surabaya, Cebu, and Penang."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The city in Southeast Asia; title: Patterns; title: Beyond the third world city : the new urban geography of Southeast Asia; title: Global cities : Singapore, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur; title: National cities and second cities; title: Processes; title: Privatising climate; title: Industrialising consumption; title: Capitalising on urbanisation; title: Contesting space; title: Policy; title: Governance and markets.