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  title info:
    title: Challenges to Asian Urbanization in the 21st Century
  name:
    name part: Dutt, Ashok K.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Noble, Allen G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Venugopal, G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Subbiah, S.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 288 p. online resource.
  abstract: st th The 21 century is the century of Asia in the same way the 20 century was of America. In terms of urbanization challenges Asia in the current century is faced with an enormous surge of urban population and the associated problems of rural –urban migration, overcrowding, proliferation of slums, housing shortage, growing unempl- ment and underemployment and choice between capital intensive productivity vs. labor intensive employment generation, suffocating pollution caused by both industries and motor vehicle fumes, crumbling urban facilities and education / health care systems and above all mind boggling poverty. While facing these challenges many bright urbani- tion aspects may also be noted –efficient mass transport systems of Japan, banning of leaded fuels for motor vehicles in Indian mega cities, formation and operation of metro –planning organizations, linking rural/urban development and a general consciousness of urban problems, recognization and efforts to resolve them. This book pioneers the analysis and research effort on urbanization in Asia in the st 21 century in light of new and continued challenges. It is a part of a continuum that emanates from the selected papers at the Sixth Asian Urbanization Conference (AUC) held in Chennai (Madras), India in January 2000. AUC is organized almost every third year. The Asian Urbanization Research Organization (AURA) headquartered at The University of Akron’s Department of Geography and Planning plans such conferences.
  table of contents: Challenges to Asian Urbanization in the 21st Century: An Introduction -- A Half-Century of the World City: Asian and African Cities -- Post-Colonial Cities in the Global Era: A Comparative Study of Mumbai and Accra -- Colombo and the Pattern of South Asian and Port City Models -- The Development of Hill Stations as Urban Centers -- Communicative Planning Practice in an Undemocratic society: Hong Kong Case -- Central Planning and Market Elements in Viet Nam’s Economy -- Recent Planning Strategies in Jerusalem -- A Spatio-Temporal, Functional Classification of Indian Cities -- Ambient Air Quality in Delhi 1988–1994: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis -- Environmental Degradation and Health:Urban Growth and Health Risks in Pondicherry -- Pollution Parameters in Asian Cities -- Mitigating Rural-Urban Exodus: Multi-Objective Spatial Design of Rural Biomass Energy -- The Role of Secondary Cities in Rapidly Industrializing Countries:The Example of Kaohsiung, Taiwan -- Assessing Rail Network History in Japan’s Kanto Region -- Urban Development of South Asia.
  note: edited by Ashok K. Dutt, Allen G. Noble, G. Venugopal, S. Subbiah.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Regional economics
  subject:
    topic: Spatial economics
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  subject:
    topic: Regional/Spatial Science
  classification: GF1-900
  classification: 304.2
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: The GeoJournal Library, 75
  identifier: 9781402025310
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2531-9
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