Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Megacities: The Asian Era

   • Elfie Swerts, Eric Denis

   Pages 1-28

3. Indian Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Urbanization Trends of Indian Metropolises: A Case of Delhi with Specific Reference to the Urban Poor

      • Debolina Kundu

      Pages 31-47

   3. Is It Sprawling Yet? A Density-Based Exploration of Sprawl in the Urban Agglomeration Region Around the Mega City of Delhi

      • Debnath Mookherjee, Eugene Hoerauf

      Pages 49-60

   4. The Changing Urban Landscape and Its Impact on Local Environment in an Indian Megacity: The Case of Delhi

      • Richa Sharma, P. K. Joshi

      Pages 61-81

   5. Spatial Correlations of Changing Land Use, Surface Temperature (UHI) and NDVI in Delhi Using Landsat Satellite Images

      • R. B. Singh, Aakriti Grover

      Pages 83-97

   6. Role of Local Level Relative Humidity on the Development of Urban Heat Island Across the Delhi Metropolitan Region

      • Shouraseni Sen Roy, R. B. Singh

      Pages 99-118

   7. Urban Political Ecology in Megacities: The Case of Delhi’s Waste Water

      • Anna Zimmer

      Pages 119-139

   8. Nutritional Status of Men and Women in Mumbai: Is There Any Imbalance Across Slums and Non-slums?

      • Kunal Keshri

      Pages 141-155

   9. Spatial Dynamics of Population in Kolkata Urban Agglomeration

      • Vidya Yadav, R. B. Bhagat

      Pages 157-173

   10. Local Action Planning for Pro-Poor Urban Governance in the Southern Megacity of Chennai, India

       • T. Vasantha Kumaran, Divya Rajeswari Swaminathan

       Pages 175-194

   11. Housing in Hyderabad: Perception of Inclusivity

       • Kalpana Markandey, B. Srinagesh

       Pages 195-203

   12. Street Food Vendors and the Dynamics of Public Space in the Emerging Mega City of Hyderabad

       • Helene Grenzebach

       Pages 205-223

4. Chinese Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Evolution of Population Structure and Spatial Distribution in Shanghai Since 2000

      • Dan He, Yuemin Ning

      Pages 227-249

   3. Characteristics of Urban Expansion in the Yangtze River Delta in a High Economics Growth Period: A Comparison Between Wuxi and Kunshan in Metropolitan Fringe of Shanghai

      • Zengmin Ji, Shan Yang

      Pages 251-271

   4. Urban Restructuring of Beijing City Through Residential Development After the Reform and Open Policy

      • Haruhiro Doi, Yanwei Chai

      Pages 273-300

   5. Urban Growth in a Rapidly Urbanized Mega City: Wuhan

      • Jianquan Cheng, Jie Zhou

      Pages 301-322

   6. Kunming: A Regional International Mega City in Southwest China

      • Qiyan Wu, Jianquan Cheng, Dan Liu, Li Han, Yuhong Yang

      Pages 323-347

In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of view of sustainability and public policy. The world’s urban population in 2009 was approximately 3.4 billion and Asia’s urban population was about 1.72 billion. Between 2010 and 2020, 411 million people will be added to Asian cities (60 % of the growth in the world’s urban population). By 2020, of the world’s urban population of 4.2 billion, approximately 2.2 billion will be in Asia. China and India will contribute 31.3 % of the total world urban population by 2025. Developing Asia’s projected global share of CO2 emissions for energy consumption will increase from 30 % in 2006 to 43 % by 2030. City regions serve as magnets for people, enterprise, and culture, but with urbanisation , the worst form of visible poverty becomes prominent. The Asian region, with a slum population of an estimated 505.5 million people, remains host to over half of the world’s slum population . The book provides information on a comprehensive range of environmental threats faced by the inhabitants of megacities. It also offers a wide and multidisciplinary group of case studies from rapidly growing megacities (with populations of more than 5 million) from developed and developing countries of Asia.

• Asian Mega Cities
• Climate Change and Urban Heat Island
• Resilience and Governance
• Socio-Economic and Environmental Change
• Urban Development and Risks
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• Climate change management

• University of Delhi, Delhi, India

  R.B. Singh

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