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.
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