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The Great Urban Transition

Landscape and Environmental Changes from Siberia, Shanghai, to Saigon

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  1. Peilei Fan

    1. Center for Global Change and Earth Observations and School of Planning, Design & Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

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  • First book to examine urban landscape and environmental changes across various transitional economies in Asia
  • Reveals how the hybrid of market logic and state intervention has produced a variety of unique landscapes in Asia
  • Demonstrates intensified global forces in shaping urban landscape of Asia

Part of the book series: Landscape Series (LAEC, volume 34)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Why Study Urbanization in Southeast, East, and North Asia (SENA)?

      • Peilei Fan
      Pages 3-11

    3. Research Design

      • Peilei Fan
      Pages 13-22

  3. Land and Population

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Urban Land Transition

      • Peilei Fan
      Pages 25-52

    3. Urban Population Dynamics

      • Peilei Fan
      Pages 53-74

  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-76
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    2. Urban Air Pollution

      • Peilei Fan
      Pages 77-100

    3. Urban Green Space

      • Peilei Fan
      Pages 101-125

  5. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Governing the Land

      • Peilei Fan
      Pages 129-146

    3. Transforming Urban Planning

      • Peilei Fan
      Pages 147-162

    4. From Planning to the Change of Urban Landscape

      • Peilei Fan
      Pages 163-178

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Conclusion

      • Peilei Fan
      Pages 181-186

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 187-215
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Keywords

About this book

This monograph examines the (sub)urbanization process of seven transitional economies in Southeast, East, and North Asia (SENA), i.e., Siberia of Russia in North Asia, China and Mongolia in East Asia, and Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam in Southeast Asia.

In ten chapters, great urban transformation occurred in SENA is discussed, as well as the transitional period which aggravated urban environments in SENA cities and how ‘institutional shift,’ enabled by movements of urban residents and transitional urban governance, may facilitate the process and improve the urban environmental condition. 

This book includes land cover and land use data derived from satellite images over the past thirty years and intensive field research in more than thirty cities exploring the rise of these great cities and their environmental challenges.

Unlike in western countries, the current urbanization process in Asian transitional economies is a hybrid product of marketlogic and state legacy and intervention, with these influences sometimes conflicting and at other times enhancing each other, under intensified globalization.

This book is of interest to researchers and students interested in landscape, urban studies, environment studies in particularly Asia, as well as planners and policy makers.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Global Change and Earth Observations and School of Planning, Design & Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

    Peilei Fan

About the author

Peilei Fan, Ph.D., is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Planning, Design, and Construction at Michigan State University. She also holds a joint research appointment at the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations and is an adjunct faculty member of the Geography Department at MSU. Fan has a Ph.D. in Economic Development and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both from MIT. She has served as a consultant/economist for the United Nations University –World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the Asian Development Bank. Fan’s research focuses on urban environment and sustainability, public health, innovation and economic development, and planning and policy. Her research projects have been funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Fan is the secretary general of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (2019-2024). She alsoserves the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) as a member of the Finance & Investment Committee and as the Track Co-Chair for Food Systems (Track 9), Community Health and Safety. Fan is an editorial board member for the journal “Landscape and Urban Planning.” She was a Core Fulbright US Scholar for 2017-2018 (Taipei and Shanghai) and a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations (2019-20). Fan has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and been guest (co)editors for special issues of four academic journals. She served on the review panels for NASA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Fulbright, and been an ad-hoc reviewer for NSF and multiple international organizations.

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