Five Cities: Modelling Asian Urban Population-environment DynamicsGayl D. Ness, Michael M. Low Oxford University Press, 2000 - 311 pages This book documents important new research on the dynamic interactions between population and the urban environment. The focus is on five cities in Asia: Faisalbad in Pakistan, Khon Kaen in Thailand, Cebu in the Philippines, Pusan in South Korea, and Kobe in Japan. It provides both important case studies and powerful analytic models. Urban planners, international development organizations, and students of urban studies will all find this book an invaluable resource. |
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... Pusan was used as a military staging ground , such as when the Mongols launched two abortive attacks on Japan in 1272 and 1281. It was also through this gateway that the Japanese invaded Korea in 1592 as part of an unsuccessful attack ...
... Pusan was used as a military staging ground , such as when the Mongols launched two abortive attacks on Japan in 1272 and 1281. It was also through this gateway that the Japanese invaded Korea in 1592 as part of an unsuccessful attack ...
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... Pusan : Promises and Challenges Rapid Growth Jung - Duk Lim THE URBAN SETTING The Korean peninsula juts down from ... Pusan occupies one of the most favourable of these natural ports . Across the peninsula to the west of Pusan is a broad ...
... Pusan : Promises and Challenges Rapid Growth Jung - Duk Lim THE URBAN SETTING The Korean peninsula juts down from ... Pusan occupies one of the most favourable of these natural ports . Across the peninsula to the west of Pusan is a broad ...
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... Pusan , where a staunch defence was mounted at what was known as the ' Pusan Perimeter ' . Massive assistance came through Pusan port , permitting the UN forces to hold the port and push the North Korean forces back to the 38th parallel ...
... Pusan , where a staunch defence was mounted at what was known as the ' Pusan Perimeter ' . Massive assistance came through Pusan port , permitting the UN forces to hold the port and push the North Korean forces back to the 38th parallel ...
Contents
Ness with Michael M | 3 |
Urban PopulationEnvironment Dynamics | 19 |
Environment Dynamics | 43 |
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Actual Projected agricultural air pollution air quality areas Asia Asian urban AUICK Bangkok barangays birth and death birth rate cars Cebu City Cebu Island central government centre century city's death rates decades demographic transition diseases economic emissions energy enrolment environment environmental estimates expected Faisalabad family planning Figure five cities future households housing impact in-migration increase industrial Japan Kaen's Khon Kaen Kobe Kobe's Korea land levels major measures ment metres migration million monitoring mortality rates Nakdong River nitrogen oxides number of vehicles out-migration Pakistan past percent Philippines population growth port primary problems produce programmes Pusan rapid rapidly region rise river road Rokko Mountains rural sector shows social South Korea square kilometres studies Table Thailand tion traffic transportation UNFPA urban administrators urban planning urban population-environment dynamics variant wastes water quality