The City in Southeast Asia
Patterns, Processes and Policy
$84.97
- Paperback
300 pages
- Release Date
29 December 2009
Summary
The extended metropolitan regions of Southeast Asia are the dynamic cores of their national economies and societies and the frontiers of accelerating globalization. ““The City in Southeast Asia”” explores ways of moving beyond outmoded paradigms of the Third World City or a Southeast Asian city ‘type’. It begins by contrasting the acknowledged world cities of Singapore and Hong Kong with the aspiring world city of Kuala Lumpur and the still disorganized cities of Bangkok, Jakarta and Manila, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789971694265 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9971694263 |
| Author: | Howard Dick, Peter J. Rimmer |
| Publisher: | NUS Press |
| Imprint: | NUS Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Release Date: | 29 December 2009 |
| Weight: | 543g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Howard Dick
Peter J. RIMMER is a Geographer and internationally recognized authority on urban and regional development in the Asian Pacific region. Since 2000 he has been Professor Emeritus and Visiting Fellow in Pacific and Asian History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra. Howard DICK is an Economist and Economic Historian at the University of Melbourne and Conjoint Professor, Faculty of Business & Law, University of Newcastle (N.S.W.).
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