Planning Asian cities
Subtitle: risks and resilience
By: edited by Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes
Series: Planning, history and environment series; Planning, history, and the environment series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780415563352; 9780203804247
Subjects: City planning; Urban Community development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Risks, resilience, and planning in Asian cities / Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes; title: Uneven geographies of vulnerability : Tokyo in the twenty-first century / André Sorensen; title: The Dragon's head : spatial development of Shanghai / Susan Walcott; title: Beijing : socialist Chinese capital and new world city / Gu Chaolin and Ian G. Cook; title: Taipei's metropolitan development : dynamics of cross-strait political economy, globalization, and national identity / Liling Huang and Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok; title: Seoul as a world city : the challenge of balanced development / Seong-Kyu Ha; title: Hong kong : the turning of the dragon head / Anthony Yeh; title: Singapore : planning for more with less / Belinda Yuen; title: Going global : development, risks, and responses in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya / Sirat Morshidi and Asyirah Abdul Rahim; title: Governing the Jakarta city-region : history, challenges, risks, and strategies / Wilmar Salim and Tommy Firman; title: Bangkok : new risks, old resilience / Douglas Webster and Chuthatip Maneepong; title: Manila : metropolitan vulnerability, local resilience / Brian Roberts.