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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. ISBNs for Planning Asian Cities are 9781136639265, 1136639268 and the print ISBNs are 9780415563352, 0415563356. Additional ISBNs include 9780415832205, 9780203804247, 9781136639272, 9786613676023, 9781280699054, 9781136639227.
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- Author: Hamnett, Stephen; Forbes, Dean
- Publisher: Routledge
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