Beschreibung:
This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas. Through examining the intersection of global suburbanisation and Asian urbanism, it depicts a complex (sub)urban world in Asia. The chapters in this book were originally published in Urban Geography.
Introduction-Changing the geographies of sub/urban theory: Asian perspectives 1. The assemblage and making of suburbs in post-reform China: the case of Guangzhou 2. Paving the way to growth: transit-oriented development as a financing instrument for Shanghai's post-suburbanization 3. Middling urbanism: the megacity and the kampung 4. Water scarce or water abundant? the case of Can Tho, Vietnam 5. Urbanizing the periphery: infrastructure funding and local growth coalition in China's peasant relocation programs 6. Cities in a world of villages: agrarian urbanism and the making of India's urbanizing frontiers 7. A New Delhi every day: multiplicities of governance regimes in a transforming metropolis