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Asian Urban Transformation: The Shifting Paradigms
Asia is undergoing an urban transformational process whose complexity and variability in scale, form, pace, and intensity across diverse landscapes pose formidable challenges. Collectively, the empirical studi...
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Asian Urban Transformation: Emerging Impressions and Future Research
This volume represents a selection of contemporary research studies on aspects of Asian urban transformation by a diverse, multidisciplinary group of Asian scholars. In this concluding chapter, we offer a succ...
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Shifting Urban Dynamics: An Overview
In this chapter, I paint a broad-brush backdrop for the rest of the volume. Following a brief look at the shifting trends in the so-called urban-rural balance of the world population based primarily on UN data...
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Asian MCR: Urban-Rural Interface and Multidimensionality of the Spread Region
The profound socioeconomic and environmental repercussions of the growing Asian megacities on the rural, semi-urban, and urbanizing territories around them have stoked academic, political, planning, public, an...
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The National Capital Region, Delhi, India: An Empirical Exploration
(NCR, Delhi) in India is one of the first and foremost examples of extensive regional planning efforts in South Asia, created with the goal of containing the growth of the core, while controlling and regulati...
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Regional Development and Planning: An Overview
This chapter reviews the changing nature of regional development and planning, with an emphasis on research between 1990 and 2018. Regional development and planning has emerged as a major interdisciplinary fie...
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Introduction
Within the global urban-rural dynamics, Asia is distinguished by the rapid growth of its giant cities, which are transforming their erstwhile non-urban and urbanizing hinterlands and giving rise to individual ...
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From Megacity to Megacity Region: Is an Asian Paradigm Emerging?
Given the current and projected proliferation of Asian megacities, and their transformational reach into surrounding territories, a common understanding of the evolving ‘megacity region’ (MCR) phenomenon is ne...
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Scale and Where the Three Prongs Can Meet
The importance of scale in research and planning for the MCR in the develo** world is no longer debatable. This is especially true in the current era of and technological advances transforming traditional ...
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Concluding Thoughts
The rise of megacities and the rural-urban hybridity of their evolving city regions, within spaces of fragmented and overlap** governing and administrative systems, have been hallmarks of Asian urbanization....
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Is It Sprawling Yet? A Density-Based Exploration of Sprawl in the Urban Agglomeration Region Around the Mega City of Delhi
Sprawl is recognized as one of the distinctive features of the urbanizing landscape in almost all countries irrespective of their urban developmental status; but despite a growing volume of literature on this ...