Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities

R.B. SinghPolitical Science
Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities

Author: R.B. Singh

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9784431550433

Category: Political Science

Page: 488

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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.

Land and the City

Philip KivellNature
Land and the City

Author: Philip Kivell

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9780415087827

Category: Nature

Page: 238

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In the rapidly changing sphere of urban development, land is shown to provide the basic morphological structure of the city, but also the source of economic and social power and the key to planning through examples from around the world.

Sustainable Transport Studies in Asia

Akimasa FujiwaraScience
Sustainable Transport Studies in Asia

Author: Akimasa Fujiwara

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9784431543794

Category: Science

Page: 292

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This book aims to provide a good understanding of and perspective on sustainable transport in Asia by focusing on economic, environmental, and social sustainability. It is widely acknowledged that the current situation and trends in transport are not always sustainable in Asia, due in part to the fast-growing economy and the astounding speed of urbanization as well as least-mature governance. As essential research material, the book provides strong support for policy makers and planners by comprehensively covering three groups of strategies, characterized by the words “avoid” (e.g., urban form design and control of car ownership), “shift” (e.g., establishing comprehensive transportation systems and increasing public transportation systems for both intracity and intercity travel), and “improve” (e.g., redesign of paratransit system, low-emission vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, and eco-life). These are elaborated in the book alongside consideration of the uncertainty of policy effects in the future. The book is also valuable for scholars and scientists because of the diverse methodologies presented and proposed herein. Among those are the four-step model with full feedback mechanisms, the bi-level programming model with sustainability goals, data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis approaches, structural equation models, discrete and/or continuous choice models, copula-based models, survival models, and driving risk models with short-term memory. Using data collected from more than ten Asian cities, including those in both developed and developing nations, the pathway to sustainable transport in Asia gradually becomes clear.

Rail Mass Transit for Developing Countries

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)Technology & Engineering
Rail Mass Transit for Developing Countries

Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)

Publisher: Thomas Telford

ISBN: 0727715607

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 404

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Many developing countries are building metro systems, which have encouraged economic growth in city centres but are proving enormously costly. This book forms a useful study of the arguments for and against metros, based on analyses of the advantages and problems encountered in several cities throughout the world.

Migration, Urbanization, and Development

Richard E. BilsborrowBusiness & Economics
Migration, Urbanization, and Development

Author: Richard E. Bilsborrow

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 0792380320

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 552

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Internal migration and urbanization are key dimensions of the process of socioeconomic development. The unprecedented movement of peoples within the borders of their own countries is one of the greatest transformations witnessed in the 20th century. Policy analysts, especially those from developing countries where internal migration can be felt at first hand, view migration as one of the most important factors affecting the course of development. It is within this context that UNFPA convened the Symposium on Internal Migration and Urbanization in Developing Countries in January 1996 in preparation for the United Nations World Conference on Human Settlements in Istanbul in June 1996. The final results of the symposium are found in this book. This volume provides a better understanding, at global level, of internal migration issues of concern to policy analysts.

China's Urban Transport Development Strategy

Stephen StaresTransportation
China's Urban Transport Development Strategy

Author: Stephen Stares

Publisher: World Bank Publications

ISBN: 0821338412

Category: Transportation

Page: 536

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World Bank Discussion Paper No. 352. Presents the proceedings of the China Urban Transport Symposium, held in Beijing, November 9-11, 1995, jointly sponsored by China's Ministry of Construction and Ministry of Finance, the People's Bank of China, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. The symposium addressed a wide range of topics, including motor vehicle pollution, urban transport management and planning, bicycles in cities, mass rapid transit, public transit reform, and the role of the private sector.