This book describes the dramatic economic and spatial transformation in
China’s Pearl River Delta region over the past decade. Reforms
introduced by the Chinese government since 1978 were the cause ...

Seventy years of revolution and turmoil have had a severe impact on the
miraculous ancient urban form of Beijing, but economic growth since the
early 1990s has threatened to deal the coup de grace. In ...

A distinguishing feature of recent urbanization in the ASEAN
countries of Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and
Indonesia is the outward extension of their mega-cities (Bangkok,
Jakarta, ...

The great processes reshaping our world today can be summed up by the
term "globalisation". Together with the communications
revolution and massive urbanisation, it is reshaping theorganisation of
global ...