ABSTRACT
This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities—developed and developing, large and small—and their urban development.
Investigating the urban challenges and opportunities of cities from every nation in Asia, the handbook engages not only the global cities like Shanghai, Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul, and Mumbai but also less studied cities like Dili, Malé, Bandar Seri Begawan, Kabul, and Pyongyang. The handbook discusses Asian cities in alignment to the United Nations’ New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals in order to contribute to global policy debates. In doing so, it critically reflects on the development trajectories of Asian cities and imagines an urban future, in Asia and the world, in the post-sustainable, post-global, and post-pandemic era.
Presenting 43 chapters of original, insightful research, this book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, students, and general readers in the fields of urban development, urban policy and planning, urban studies, and Asian studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|70 pages
Introduction
chapter 4|11 pages
Vulnerable resilience in COVID-19
part II|116 pages
East Asian cities
chapter 6|14 pages
East Asian cities
chapter 13|9 pages
Ulaanbaatar
part III|114 pages
South Asian cities
chapter 21|13 pages
Kathmandu Valley
chapter 22|10 pages
Malé
chapter 23|11 pages
Mumbai
part IV|148 pages
Southeast Asian cities
chapter 32|13 pages
Manila
chapter 35|11 pages
Vientiane
chapter 36|12 pages
Yangon
part V|64 pages
Central Asian cities
chapter 37|12 pages
Central Asian cities
chapter 38|9 pages
Almaty
part VI|10 pages
Conclusion