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- Offers an in-depth look into the urban dynamics of one of the most important megacity regions of South Asia in the continuum of change from rural to urban
- Articulates and applies a pragmatically framed three-pronged approach (trans-urban, scale based, multi-dimensional) towards analysis to sustainable growth management
- Discusses the next steps, questions to be raised and directions to be explored
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book argues that close and disciplined scrutiny of the Asian megacity regions is of critical importance to understanding Asian urbanization. However, any approach to studying these regions must adopt a multi-dimensional and trans-urban perspective; otherwise, we Without such an approach, we cannot truly make meaningful decisions about growth management and sustainable development for such regions.
Amidst the sweeping demographic and structural shifts produced by global urbanization, Asian urbanization has a fascinating and prominent role. Asian urbanization is heterogeneous, and more accurately constitutes “phenomena” than a “phenomenon.” However, despite this diversity, there are certain common features that we can identify. One of them is the Asian “megacity region”— the administrative and/or delineated territory of mixed urban-rural landscape surrounding a giant metropolis.The purpose of this book is to:
- Understand the main features of 21st century urbanization
- Note the limitations of current approaches (e.g. disparate scales, city-centric views, inadequate data sets)
- Articulate a pragmatically framed three-pronged approach (scale-based, trans-urban, multi-dimensional)
- Demonstrate the application of such an approach with a case study of one of the most important megacity regions in South Asia, the Delhi National Capital Region, underscoring the methodological requirements of such an approach
- Discuss the next steps for the field as a whole: questions to be raised and directions to be explored for further study.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Environmental Studies, Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA
Debnath Mookherjee
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Asian Megacity Region
Book Subtitle: A Conceptual Approach
Authors: Debnath Mookherjee
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42649-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42648-4Published: 12 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42651-4Published: 12 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42649-1Published: 11 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 225
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Regional Development