Beyond Metropolis
Subtitle: The Planning and Governance of Asia's Mega-Urban Regions (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780801881763
Subjects: Urban & municipal planning; Social Science; Planning; Sociology; Urbanization; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; Sociology - General; Architecture / Planning; Municipal services; ASIA; City planning; Regional planning
First sentence: With the advent of the twenty-first century, the image of Asia has shifted from terraced rice paddies and waving palms to smoke-belching factories and towering skyscrapers.