Beyond Metropolis: The Planning and Governance of Asia's Mega-Urban Regions examines policy issues concerned with planning and governance in fourteen of the largest urban regions in Asia, which houses most of the world's mega-cities with populations of more than 10 million. This book, as part of the Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, focuses particularly on policies and planning programs that would bring more viability and sustainability to those large, rapidly growing cities. Building on the Asian Urban Research Network project, which during the 1990s analyzed the rapid growth of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou-Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok and Jakarta, the book incorporates other large cities in the region, including Delhi, Dhaka, Karachi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, and Tokyo, into its comparative analysis of urban development in Asia.
Put simply, this is one of the most comprehensive books on Asian urbanization, reflecting Aprodicio Laquian's detailed knowledge...