Urbanization and urban policies in pacific asia.
This book is the outcome of the Conference on Population Growth, Urbanization, and Urban Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region, held in Honolulu during 8-12 April 1985. It provides wide attention among development planners, urban managers, and scholars in the field of urban and development planning.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Exhibit; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; PART I. IMPLICATIONS OF DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC CHANGE FOR URBANIZATION; 2. Population Growth and Urbanization: What Does the Future Hold?; 3. Structural Change and Spatial Transformation: Review of Urbanization in Asia, 1960-80; PART II. THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY AND NATIONAL URBANIZATION; 4. International Impacts on the Urbanization Process in the Asian Region: A Review.
- 5. External Economic Forces and National Spatial Development: Japanese Direct Investment in Pacific AsiaPART III. MOBILITY, LABOR MARKETS, AND THE WELFARE IMPLICATIONS OF URBANIZATION; 6. Rural-to-Urban Migration and Labor Markets; 7. Demographic and Welfare Implications of Urbanization: Direct and Indirect Effects on Sending and Receiving Areas; PART IV. EFFECTS OF IMPLICIT POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; 8. Implicit Policies and the Urban Bias As Factors Affecting Urbanization; 9. Implicit Policies Affecting Urbanization in Thailand; PART V. EFFECTIVENESS OF DECENTRALIZATION POLICIES.
- 10. Decentralized Urban Development: Stylized Facts and Policy Implications11. Population Decentralization Policies: The Experience of Taiwan; PART VI. URBAN MANAGEMENT ISSUES AND POLICIES; 12. Success and Failure in Urban Management: Some Lessons from the East Asian Experience; 13. Cities That Work: Hong Kong and Singapore; PART VII. NATIONAL URBAN GOALS AND POLICIES; 14. The Goals of National Urban Policy: The Case of Indonesia; 15. Urban Policies and Urban Housing Programs in China; PART VIII. CONCLUSION; 16. Issues for Further Research; References; List of Contributors; Index.