Future Challenges of Cities in Asia

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Edited by Bing Zhang, Neha Sami, R. Parthasarathy, Paul Rabé, Gregory Bracken

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: November 2020
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9789048544912
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544912

Subjects:: Economics, Economics: General Interest

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The ten essays in Future Challenges of Cities in Asia engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia. These comprise socio-economic and cultural transitions as a result of urbanization; environmental challenges, especially questions of climate change, natural disasters, and environmental justice; and the challenges of urban infrastructure, built form, and new emerging types of urban settlements. The essays demonstrate that it is increasingly difficult to conceptualize the ‘urban’ as one particular type of settlement. Rather, it would be more accurate to say that the ‘urban’ characterizes a global transition in the way we are beginning to think about settlements. This book is of interest not only to researchers interested in comparative and inter-disciplinary research, but also to urban practitioners more broadly, illustrating through concrete cases the challenges that urban regions in Asia and beyond are facing, and the various opportunities that exist for dealing with these challenges.

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

About the Three UKNA Volumes
pp 5-6

Contents
pp 7-8

List of Figures and Tables
pp 8-12

1 - Future Challenges of Cities in Asia: An Introduction
pp 13-22

2 - Human Agency in the Asian City
pp 23-38

3 - Toward Inclusive, Vital and Livable City Scenarios: The Transformation of Urban Villages in Shenzhen
pp 39-64

4 - Cultural Dilemma in Beijing's Urban Regeneration: From Liulichang Cultural Street to Qianmen Street and Yangmeizhu Oblique Street
pp 65-98

5 - Housing as Heritage: The Great Urban Dilemma of the Global City of Shanghai
pp 99-130

6 - Not an Act of God: Lessons from a Disaster in the Settlements Planning of a River City
pp 131-154

7 - The Political Ecology of Climate Injustice in Bangkok
pp 155-182

8 - Assessing Flood-Related Vulnerability of the Urban Poor
pp 183-208

9 - The Ecological Future of Cities: Evaluating the Role of Green Infrastructure in Promoting Sustainability/Resilience in India
pp 209-242

10 - Hong Kong's “Rail-plus-Property” Development: A Model for Financing Public Transportation in Developing Cities in Southeast Asia?
pp 243-276

11 - Large Infrastructure Projects: The Emergence of Corridors in Asia
pp 277-298

Index
pp 299-302

Publications / Asian Cities
pp 303-303

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