Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities

Introducing Asian Mega City Environment.- Analysing Asia's mega-cities and mega-urban-region dynamics using Geopolis database.- Future of Asian Mega Cities.- Urban Water Risk in Asian Mega Cities.- Urban Planning, Governance and Management Dealing with Climate Change in Indian Mega Cities.- Japanese Experiences.- Spatial changes in the socioeconomic aspects of the Tokyo metropolitan area after the 1980s.- Urban heat islands in Tokyo.- Osaka as the nation's second-largest mega city.- distinctive trajectories of industrial, commercial and consumer city.- Indian Experiences.- Chennai: Questioning the sustainability of an emerging mega-city - economy, environment and governance.- Local Action Planning for Pro-Poor Urban governance in the Southern Mega City of Chennai, India.- Population Dynamics in Calcutta Metropolitan Region: Implications for Planning and Governance.- Changing Environment, Physical Landscape and Emerging Heat Islands in Kolkata Metropolitan Region.- Role of local level relative humidity on the development of urban heat island across the Delhi Metropolitan Region.- Urban Political Ecology in megacities: The case of Delhi's waste water.- Spatial Correlation of Changing Land Use, Surface Temperature (UHI) and NDVI in Delhi Using Landsat Satellite Images.- Housing in Hyderabad.- Nutritional Status of Men and Women in Mumbai: Is There Any Imbalance across Slums and Non-Slums.- Chinese Experiences.- Spatio-temporal evolution of urban structure in Shanghai".- The Population Distribution and Urban Development polices in Shanghai.- Urban Expansion in the Yangtze River Delta in a High Economic Growth Period-A Comparison between Wuxi and Kunshan in Metropolitan Fringe of Shanghai.- Urban restructuring of Beijing City after the reform and open policy.- Changing Climate and Air Quality in the Fast-urbanization Pearl River Delta region of Southern China.- Urban growth in a rapidly urbanised mega city -Wuhan,P.R.China.- Other Asian Mega Cities Experiences.- Singapore's Global City Challenges: National Identity, Cosmopolitan Aspirations, Migrant Requirements Urban Development in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.- Spatial Dynamics of the Automobile Industry in the Extended Bangkok Metropolitan Region.- Jakarta Megacity (Jabodetabek): from City Development toward Urban Complex Development System.