First published in 1999, this volume begins with a panoramic survey by Nigel Harris of the drama of Asian Urbanization, based on the inaugural plenary lecture he gave to the 5th Asian Urbanization Conference held in London. In the following chapters many experts and practitioners from different countries and cities provide a stimulating portrayal of the processes and outcomes of one of the greatest shifts of population (not just absolutely but proportionately as well) ever to have occurred in human history.
Asia includes more than half the world's population, but, apart from the Tiger economies and Japan, it is still overwhelmingly rural. In the last decade or so urbanization has really begun to take off and the shift of population to the cities represents one of the greatest population movements the planet has ever seen. By 2030 more than 50% of Asia's population will be urban and between now and then more than 500 million people in Asia will have moved - looking for jobs, housing, food and water. They will be both part of a problem and most of the solution - building around them the cities they will live in.
First published in 1999, this volume begins with a panoramic survey by Nigel Harris of the drama of Asian Urbanization, based on the inaugural plenary lecture he gave to the 5th Asian Urbanization Conference held in London.
'...excellent up to date information, fascinating individual insights, multitudes of detailed case studies, leading edge theorising...fascinating and complex contribution to understanding a large complex phenomenon...provides a very wide range of current data and case study material in accessible form, ideal for A-level or undergraduate urban or development studies course leaders...' Geography [Joint review of volumes 1 and 2] '...a wide and rich range of up-to-date case study materials, these two volumes are a welcome new source to students who are looking for precisely such materials...these volumes should be on the shelves of the library of any university with courses in urban development in developing areas and/or development studies.' Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 'If there's a medal for editorship, then maybe Graham Chapman, Ashok Dutt and Bob Bradnock should be on the shortlist...These two books are important because they represent such a diversity of research from such a range of scholars...the books do provide an insight into the issues that are concentrating minds of urban scholars from Tehran to Tokuyama and from Cambridge to Connecticut.' The Geographical Journal '...in the next thirty years more than 500 million people will move from the countryside to the cities of this vast region...The sweep of challenges such a movement portends is well covered in these two volumes...' Urban Geography
