Mega Urban Regions of Southeast AsiaA distinguishing feature of recent urbanization in the ASEAN countries of Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Indonesia is the outward extension of their mega-cities (Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur) beyond the metropolitan borders, resulting in the establishment of new towns, industrial estates, and housing projects in previously rural areas. This process has both positive and negative effects. On one side, household incomes and employment opportunities are increasing, but on the other, the growth often causes serious problems in terms of environmental deterioration, conflicting land uses, and inadequate housing and service provisions. Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia is the first comprehensive work on the subject of ASEAN mega-urban regions. The contributors review T.G. McGee's original idea of desakota zones, and offer arguments both for and against this concept, making a significant contribution to our understanding of the true face of ASEAN cities. The book brings together authors from around the world and will be of interest to a wide audience, including demographers, urban planners, geographers, sociologists, economists, civil servants and development consultants. |
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Thus commuting is a form of geographic transaction performed by people, usually daily; shipping spices from, say, Manado to Rotterdam is a commodity transaction; transferring funds from New York to Singapore represents a capital flow; ...
... that the household income in these regions is on average four times that of the nation at large. More personal income (admittedly unevenly distributed) can therefore flow over into opportunities for the poor in the informal sector.
The developing flow patterns are not downtown oriented, as in older North American and European cities, but are based on cross-commuting among a multitude of nodes, as is the case in Los Angeles. (Where, for example, is Bangkok's ...
Less emphasis would be placed on transportation and other linking or flow infrastructure, and costs (primarily in terms of human time) would thus continue to be incurred in moving about the regions.“ Land-use planning would have to ...
The fact that land-use planning systems are so weak in many ASEAN cities, particularly in Bangkok, Manila, and to a lesser extent Jakarta, gives even greater relative importance to linking/flow infrastructure compared to that of cities ...
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Contents
| 43 | |
Case Studies of ASEAN MegaUrban Regions | 267 |
Conclusions and Policy Implications | 341 |
References | 356 |
Contributors | 374 |
Index | 376 |
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The Mega-urban Regions of Southeast Asia Terence Gary McGee,T. G. McGee,Ira M. Robinson No preview available - 1995 |
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| Title | Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia Urbanization in Asia Series |
| Editor | Ira M. Robinson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | UBC Press, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0774842644, 9780774842648 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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