[PDF] Five Decades Of Urbanization In Southeast Asia eBook

Author : Yap Kioe Sheng
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9814380024

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Urbanization occurs in tandem with development. Countries in Southeast Asia need to build - individually and collectively - the capacity of their cities and towns to promote economic growth and development, to make urban development more sustainable, to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and to ensure that all groups in society share in the development. This book is a result of a series of regional discussions by experts and practitioners involved in the urban and planning of their countries. It highlights urbanization issues that have implications for regional - including ASEAN - cooperation, and provides practical recommendations for policymakers. It is a first step towards assisting governments in the region to take advantage of existing collaborative partnerships to address the urban transformation that Southeast Asia is experiencing today.

Author : Peter James Rimmer
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789971694265

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The extended metropolitan regions of Southeast Asia are the dynamic cores of their national economies and societies and the frontiers of accelerating globalization. This title explores ways of moving beyond outmoded paradigms of the Third World City or a Southeast Asian city 'type'.

Author : Rita Padawangi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Urbanization
ISBN : 9781138681590

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Theorizing urbanization in Southeast Asia -- Migration, networks and identities -- Development and discontents -- Environmental governance -- The social production of the urban fabric -- Social change and alternative development

Author : Hans-Dieter Evers
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783825840211

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This book is based on the results of over two decades of field research on cities and towns of Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. The connections between micro and macro processes, between grassroots interactions and urban structures, between social theory and empirical data are analysed to provide a vivid picture of the great variety of urban forms, the social creativity in the slums of Bangkok, Manila or Jakarta, the variety of cultural symbolism and the political and religious structuration of urban space. The book is written in the tradition of German or European sociological research from Marx and Weber to Habermas and Bourdieu. It will be of interest to urban anthropologists, political scientists and sociologists, to students of Southeast Asian history, culture and society, to urban planners and policy makers.

Author : Rita Padawangi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108636306

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Urbanization as a process is rife with inequality, in Southeast Asia as anywhere else, but resistance and contestation persist on the ground. In this element, the author sets out to achieve three goals: 1) to examine the political nature of urban development; 2) to scrutinize the implications of power inequality in urban development discussions; and 3) to highlight topical and methodological contributions to urban studies from Southeast Asia. The key to a robust understanding is groundedness: knowledge about the everyday realities of urban life that are hard to see on the surface but dominate how the city functions, with particular attention to human agency and the political life of marginalized groups. Ignoring politics in research on urbanization essentially perpetuates the power inequities in urban development; this element thus focuses not just on Southeast Asian cities and urbanization per se, but also on critical perspectives on patterns and processes in their development.

Author : Tai-Chee Wong
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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"Challenging Sustainability features contributions made by a group of academic geographers, each documenting recent research findings that identify the complexity of problems facing the region's largest cities and highlight the various ways in which the challenges of sustainability are being met."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : T. G. McGee
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780774805483

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A distinguishing feature of recent urbanization in the ASEAN countries of Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Indonesia is the outward extension of their mega-cities (Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur) beyond the metropolitan borders, resulting in the establishment of new towns, industrial estates, and housing projects in previously rural areas. This process has both positive and negative effects. On one side, household incomes and employment opportunities are increasing, but on the other, the growth often causes serious problems in terms of environmental deterioration, conflicting land uses, and inadequate housing and service provisions. Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia is the first comprehensive work on the subject of ASEAN mega-urban regions. The contributors review T.G. McGee's original idea of desakota zones, and offer arguments both for and against this concept, making a significant contribution to our understanding of the true face of ASEAN cities. The book brings together authors from around the world and will be of interest to a wide audience, including demographers, urban planners, geographers, sociologists, economists, civil servants and development consultants.