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Beyond Metropolis: The Planning and Governance of Asia's Mega-Urban Regions

Beyond Metropolis: The Planning and Governance of Asia's Mega-Urban Regions by Aprodicio A. Laquian

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Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

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978-0-8018-8176-5
Beyond Metropolis: The Planning and Governance of Asia's Mega-Urban Regions by Aprodicio A. Laquian

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Beyond Metropolis studies planning and governance in the regions surrounding the twelve cities in Asia with populations over ten million: Tokyo, Mumbai, Kolkata, Dhaka, Delhi, Shanghai, Jakarta, Osaka, Beijing, Karachi, Metro Manila, and Seoul. These regions are greater than cities plus suburbs: for almost all, development has sprawled into the surrounding countryside, enveloping villages, towns, and small and medium-sized cities, creating “extended metropolitan regions.”

These areas, argues Aprodicio A. Laquian, are the centers of development for their countries: they represent huge markets; large and varied labor pools; and centers of politics, education, and culture. Beyond Metropolis examines these mega-urban regions in terms of governance and sustainability; water, transportation, and housing; and the twin questions of inner-city redevelopment and satellite area development. The author embraces, on the one hand, unified regional planning and, on the other, cooperative efforts by urban residents for addressing their own problems. Beyond Metropolis builds on studies conducted during the 1990s at the Centre for Human Settlements, University of British Columbia.

Aprodicio A. Laquian directed the Centre for Human Settlements from 1991 to 2000 and is professor emeritus of the University of British Columbia. His career has embraced both academic and government service for the Philippines, the United Nations, Canada, and the United States. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2002–2003.

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