Urbanization and Development in Asia
Multidimensional Perspectives
Published on 2. August 2012
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-19-807853-1 (ISBN)
Description
Over the last few decades, globalization has had a visible effect on urbanization and migration patterns across much of Asia. Analyses of migration patterns reveal that some of the largest movements of people in the world actually take place in the form of internal migration within certain regions and countries, as people move from rural areas to booming urban centres. With the help of selected case studies from India, China, Japan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Phillipines, this volume examines the following issues: Why do people move from rural to urban areas? In what ways does globalization affect such movements? What are the synergies between globalization, urbanization, and migration? What are the challenges that come with resettlement, especially for minorities and other less empowered groups? effect on urbanization and migration patterns across much of Asia. Analyses of migration patterns reveal that some of the largest movements of people in the world actually take place in the form of internal migration within certain regions and countries, as people move from rural areas to booming urban centres. With the help of selected case studies from India, China, Japan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Phillipines, this volume examines the following issues: Why do people move from rural to urban areas? In what ways does globalization affect such movements? What are the synergies between globalization, urbanization, and migration? What are the challenges that come with resettlement, especially for minorities and other less empowered groups?
Reviews / Votes
This edited volume is an interdisciplinary excursion into contemporary issues of migration and development in the rapidly urbanizing regions of Asia. The authors do an excellent job compiling works that address the tremendous socioeconomic and built environment transformations that have occurred on the Asian continent over the past three decades. The editors should be praised for compiling a work that addresses both the breadth and depth of urbanization and development issues in Asia. While clearly a difficult task, the editors succeed in creating a volume that is suitable for upper-division undergraduate and introductory graduate courses in most of the social science disciplines, but particularly those in geography, political science, international development, economics, and public policy. * Journal of Regional Science *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-807853-1 (9780198078531)
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Jo Beall is Director, Education and Society at the British Council. Formerly, she was Professor of Development Studies, Department of International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis is Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
Ravi Kanbur is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, USA.
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis is Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
Ravi Kanbur is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, USA.
Content
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ; 1. CREATING PLACE FOR THE DISPLACED: MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION IN ASIA (JO BEALL, BASUDEB GUHA-KHASNOBIS, AND RAVI KANBUR) ; PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND URBANIZATION: ; 2. GLOBALIZATION AND EXCLUSIONARY URBAN GROWTH IN ASIAN COUNTRIES (AMITABH KUNDU AND DEBOLINA KUNDU) ; 3. ICT SECTOR, GLOBALIZATION, AND URBAN ECONOMIC GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM BANGALORE (M.R. NARAYANA) ; 4. PLACE AND IDENTITY ON THE BORDERLAND BETWEEN OLD AND NEW IN SHANGHAI: A CASE STUDY (DELJANA IOSSIFOVA) ; PART II: MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION: ; 5. GLOBALIZING SHANGHAI: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND THE GLOBAL CITY (WEI SHEN) ; 6. GLOBALIZING HOUSEHOLDS AND MULTI-ETHNIC COMMUNITY BUILDING IN JAPAN (CHIHIRO ISHII) ; 7. FOUNDATIONS OF MINORITY COMMUNITIES: RESIDENT KOREANS IN JAPAN (DAVID RANDS) ; PART III: GOVERNANCE AND URBANIZATION: ; 8. TOWARD EFFICIENT URBAN FORM IN CHINA (DOUGLAS WEBSTER, ALAIN BERTAUD, CAI JIANMING, AND YANG ZHENSHAN) ; 9. FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION AND URBANIZATION IN INDONESIA (MARGHERITA COMOLA AND LUIZ DE MELLO) ; 10. MODERATING URBANIZATION AND MANAGING GROWTH: CAN COLOMBO PREVENT THE EMERGING CHAOS? (RANJITH DAYARATNE) ; PART IV: WOMEN IN URBAN SETTINGS: ; 11. WOMEN AND LANDED PROPERTY IN URBAN INDIA: NEGOTIATING CLOSED DOORS AND WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY (BIPASHA BARUAH) ; 12. URBANIZATION AND THE SOUTH ASIAN ENIGMA: A CASE STUDY OF INDIA (BASUDEB GUHA-KHASNOBIS AND K.S. JAMES) ; PART V: INFRASTRUCTURE IN URBAN PERIPHERIES: ; 13. WHY DO PERI-URBAN HOUSEHOLDS INVEST IN IMPROVED, PIPED WATER? A CASE-STUDY FROM CAN THO, VIETNAM (JAMES H. SPENCER) ; 14. THE EXCLUDED POOR: HOW TARGETING HAS LEFT OUT THE POOR IN PERIPHERAL CITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES (MICHAEL P. CANARES) ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.