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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... Performance: A Comparative Perspective / 109 Shlomo Angel and Stephen K. Mayo Housing Women Factory Workers in the Northern Corridor of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region / 133 Yap Kioe Sheng and Aminur Rahman Moving Goods, People, ...
... and exploitation of female factory workers. These serious problems are compounded by a lack of effective land-use and environmental controls and other institutional machinery necessary for managing the new urban complex.
'Housing Women Factory Workers in the Northern Corridor of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region,' by Yap Kioe Sheng and Aminur Rahman, focuses on the housing of female workers employed in the factories situated along the so-called northern ...
... workers (Hackenberg and Wangboonsin 1990). In the same light, Malaysia is expect to experience heightening conflict between the politics of pro-bumiputra nationalism and the economics of migration from Global Interdependence and ...
With the entire workforce growing by 3.8 million workers over this period, these figures imply that exports directly absorbed the equivalent of somewhere between 11 and 17 per cent of the additions to the Thai labour force.
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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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