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Planning Asian Cities - Risks and Resilience (Paperback)
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Planning Asian Cities - Risks and Resilience (Paperback)
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
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In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and
Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region's most
distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent
development of Pacific Asia's major cities. They show how
globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status,
has had a profound effect on all these cities. Tokyo is an
archetypal world city. Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul have acquired
world city characteristics. Taipei and Kuala Lumpur have been at
the centre of expanding economies in which nationalism and global
aspirations have been intertwined and expressed in the built
environment. Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai have played key,
sometimes competing, roles in China's rapid economic growth.
Bangkok's amenity economy is currently threatened by political
instability, while Jakarta and Manila are the core city-regions of
less developed countries with sluggish economies and significant
unrealized potential. But how resilient are these cities to the
risks that they face? How can they manage continuing pressures for
development and growth while reducing their vulnerability to a
range of potential crises? How well prepared are they for climate
change? How can they build social capital, so important to a city's
recovery from shocks and disasters? What forms of governance and
planning are appropriate for the vast mega-regions that are
emerging? And, given the tradition of top-down, centralized,
state-directed planning which drove the economic growth of many of
these cities in the last century, what prospects are there of them
becoming more inclusive and sensitive to the diverse needs of their
populations and to the importance of culture, heritage and local
places in creating liveable cities?
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