Planning For A Better Urban Living Environment In Asia

Author : Anthony Gar-On Yeh,Mee Kam Ng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429831218

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Planning for a Better Urban Living Environment in Asia by Anthony Gar-On Yeh,Mee Kam Ng Pdf

First published in 2000, this volume explores how Asia has developed very rapidly in the last quarter of the century and will be a main focus of the world in the 21st century. With rapid growth and development, the urban areas in the region are undergoing dramatic changes. An appreciation of the heterogeneous nature of Asian cities and the related planning practices in the first step to understand various urban development problems in the region. This book is a consolidated effort by prominent scholars in Asian planning schools to explore urban development and planning practices in Asia. The book reflects on and examines some of the past and current challenges, and considers future prospects of urban and regional planning, environment, housing, redevelopment and conservation, and planning education in Asia. This book should be useful to students, teachers, researchers, professionals and people who are interested in urban development, planning and environment in Asia.

Author : Brian Roberts,Trevor Kanaley
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9789715616072

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Urbanization and Sustainability in Asia by Brian Roberts,Trevor Kanaley Pdf

This book considers urbanization in Asia and presents case studies of sustainable development "best practice" from 12 Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : City planning and redevelopment law
ISBN : 9211314194

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Reassessment of Urban Planning and Development Regulations in Asian Cities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Belinda Yuen,Anthony G.O. Yeh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789048197385

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High-Rise Living in Asian Cities by Belinda Yuen,Anthony G.O. Yeh Pdf

This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written about Asian cities even though Asia is the current hotbed of high-rise development. Even though traditional discourse of high-rise housing is not always positive, new forces are redefining its place in 21st century urbanity. Many cities around the world are reembracing high-rise in urban agenda under current narrative of sustainable development. High-rise is fast becoming a priority area in international research agenda. The quest is for livable and sustainable high-rise development. Against the background of current trends--globalization, urbanization, mixed-use development, and new-built taller buildings in inner city areas in both developed and developing countries, this book examines the software: design, economics, estate management, legal and property rights, physical environment, planning, community development, and social dimensions of high-rise living. Analysis is with the widely acclaimed successful high-rise public housing in Hong Kong and Singapore to understand the advantages and worries of high-rise living, and to distill the key points and lessons in the making of a ‘good’ highrise living environment. Hong Kong and Singapore have been constructing high-rise for more than four decades each. The majority of their population has moved to live in high-rise, selecting to live high-rise, and registering consistently high residential satisfaction. The height of apartment buildings in both cities continues to rise. The tallest is anticipated to be 70-storey. It is the contention of this book that contrary to earlier common negative discourses on public high-rise living, the high-rise environment may yet offer urban residents a satisfying dwelling experience. Leading housing academics, researchers and practitioners in the two cities have contributed to this book. This book presents a timely contribution to our understanding of a widening urban phenomenon that will affect a growing number of the world’s population.

Author : Peter J. Marcotullio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351878449

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Towards Sustainable Cities by Peter J. Marcotullio Pdf

While there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by extending the analysis from North American and European cities to include East Asian cities. Many cities in Asia have deep historical roots, have sustained dense populations through time and have grown prosperous in recent decades. They also face significant environmental degradation and other planning challenges. In bringing together and comparing strategies and experiences from three distinct global regions, this book offers unique insights and new perspectives on the challenges of moving towards greater urban sustainability. While questioning which strategies can promote sustainable cities in a global context, the book also illustrates that while formulae generated out of American and European experience cannot be universally applied, some of the analytical approaches and experience of the other developed countries can offer insights for those working in different contexts. It argues that managing urban change for greater urban sustainability in diverse regions requires detailed understanding of local issues and regional strategies as well as strong support from local communities.

Author : Zhenjiang Shen,Ling Huang,KuangHui Peng,Jente Pai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319700250

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Green City Planning and Practices in Asian Cities by Zhenjiang Shen,Ling Huang,KuangHui Peng,Jente Pai Pdf

Urban planners across the world are faced with sustainable development issues in their work, especially when they are tasked with creating green cities or where sustainable and smart growth in urban settings are set as primary goals. This book introduces green city planning and practices from the three dimensions of green-building innovation, community development and smart city strategies, and argues that effective implementation of green city planning are a necessary pre-condition for reaching sustainable urban development. A range of authors representing a broad disciplinary spectrum bring together the different standards of green building methods and urban design techniques and clearly sketch the roles of both spatial designers and urban researchers in the implementation of green city planning at regional, community and single-building level in order to arrive at an integrated approach across different scales.

Author : Mitsuhiko Kawakami,Zhen-jiang Shen,Jen-te Pai,Xiao-lu Gao,Ming Zhang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400759220

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Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development by Mitsuhiko Kawakami,Zhen-jiang Shen,Jen-te Pai,Xiao-lu Gao,Ming Zhang Pdf

This book attempts to provide insights into the achievement of a sustainable urban form, through spatial planning and implementation; here, we focus on planning experiences at the levels of local cities and some metropolitan areas in Asian countries. This book investigates the impact of planning policy on spatial planning implementation, from multidisciplinary viewpoints encompassing land-use patterns, housing development, transportation, green design, and agricultural and ecological systems in the urbanization process. We seek to learn from researchers in an integrated multidisciplinary platform that reflects a variety of perspectives, such as economic development, social equality, and ecological protection, with a view to achieving a sustainable urban form.​

Author : Belinda Yuen,Asfaw Kumssa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789048198672

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Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia by Belinda Yuen,Asfaw Kumssa Pdf

This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical analysis and up-to-date discussions and assessments of the urban challenges and solutions for their cities. A number of key topics concerning housing, sustainable urban development and climate change in Africa and Asia are explored along with how policy interventions and partnerships deliver specific forms of urban development. It is intended for all who are interested in the state of the cities and urban development in Africa and Asia. Africa and Asia present, in many ways, useful lessons in dealing with the burgeoning urban population, and the problems surrounding this influx of people and climate change in the developing word.

Author : Stephen Hamnett,Dean Forbes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136639272

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Planning Asian Cities by Stephen Hamnett,Dean Forbes Pdf

Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. But how resilient are these cities to the risks that they face? How can they manage continuing pressures for development and growth while reducing their vulnerability to a range of potential crises? And, given the tradition of top-down, centralized, state-directed planning which drove the economic growth of many of these cities in the last century, what prospects are there of them becoming more inclusive and sensitive to the diverse needs of their populations and to the importance of culture, heritage and local places in creating liveable cities?

Author : Nick Harvey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402036286

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Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management by Nick Harvey Pdf

Most of the world’s population lives close to the coast and is highly dependent on coastal resources, which are being exploited at unsustainable rates. These resources are being subject to further pressures associated with population increase and the globalization of coastal resource demand. This is particularly so for the Asia-Pacific region which contains almost two thirds of the world’s population and most of the world’s coastal megacities. The region has globally important atmospheric and oceanic phenomena, which affect world climate such as the Asian Monsoon and the El-Niño Southern Oscillation phenomena. The Asia-Pacific region also has highly significant marine diversity but over the last few decades, coastal resources such as mangroves, coral reefs and fisheries have experienced large-scale depletion. The need to find appropriate management solutions to these and other coastal issues is made more complex by the need to take account of international scientific predictions for global climate change and sea-level rise which will further impact on these coasts. The idea for this book arose from a meeting of coastal scientists in Kobe, Japan in May 2003. The meeting was organized by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), an inter-governmental network, comprising 21 member countries, for the promotion of global change research and links between science and policy making in the region.

Author : Ashok K. Dutt,F.J. Costa,Surinder Aggarwal,A.G. Noble
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0792331354

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The Asian City: Processes of Development, Characteristics and Planning by Ashok K. Dutt,F.J. Costa,Surinder Aggarwal,A.G. Noble Pdf

In The Asian City the Asian urbanisation processes, nature and characteristics of the 1990s have been analyzed by countries, by comparing different countries and in an international context. The authors are urban specialists from four continents. This volume has been divided into six parts: Part I Urbanisation in an international context; Part II Comparative urban setting; Part III Urbanisation characteristics by country; Part IV Urban planning; Part V The urban poor, and Part VI Perspectives on urbanization. This work allows the reader to understand Asian urban forms, their evolution, the nature of urbanisation, its impact on economic growth in cities, the living and working conditions of the poor, and urban planning and problems.

Author : Daniel T.L. Shek,Ying Keung Chan,Paul S.N. Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402036026

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Quality-of-Life Research in Chinese, Western and Global Contexts by Daniel T.L. Shek,Ying Keung Chan,Paul S.N. Lee Pdf

The majority of studies on the quality of life have been conducted in Western contexts and are based on Western participants. Comparatively speaking, there are only a few studies that have been conducted in different Chinese contexts. Also, there are fewer QOL studies based on children and adolescents, or studies that examine the relationship between QOL and economic disadvantage. In addition, more research is needed to address the methodological issues related to the assessment of quality of life. This volume is a constructive response to the challenges described above. It is the first book to cover research in Chinese, Western and global contexts in a single volume. It is a ground-breaking volume in which Chinese studies on the quality of life are collected. The book includes papers addressing family QOL, quality of life in adolescents experiencing economic disadvantage, and methodological issues in the assessment of QOL. It is written by researchers working in a variety of disciplines.

Author : Manish Chalana,Jeffrey Hou
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789888208333

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Messy Urbanism by Manish Chalana,Jeffrey Hou Pdf

Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy that often challenges understanding and appreciation. With contributions by a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia examines a range of cases in Asia to explore the social and institutional politics of urban informality and the contexts in which this “messiness” emerges or is constructed. The book brings a distinct perspective to the broader patterns of informal urban orders and processes as well as their interplay with formalized systems and mechanisms. It also raises questions about the production of cities, cityscapes, and citizenship. Messy Urbanism will appeal to professionals, students, and scholars in the fields of urban studies, architecture, landscape architecture, planning and policy, as well as Asian studies. “The rubric of ‘messy urbanism’ is a productive antidote to the binaries that have limited a productive discussion about urbanism in Asia. This book is a significant contribution in understanding the inherent nature of the built environments in aspiring democracies—an emergent urbanism that seamlessly embraces the incremental, temporal, and ephemeral as given conditions in the formation of Asian cities.” —Rahul Mehrotra, Architect / Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University “This book is of a high quality, with multiple examples from Hong Kong and China. The authors have covered the topic admirably and I expect the book to attract a wide readership.” —Vinit Mukhija, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Urban Planning, UCLA

Author : Belinda Yuen,Anthony Gar-On Yeh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9048197392

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High-Rise Living in Asian Cities by Belinda Yuen,Anthony Gar-On Yeh Pdf

This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written about Asian cities even though Asia is the current hotbed of high-rise development. Even though traditional discourse of high-rise housing is not always positive, new forces are redefining its place in 21st century urbanity. Many cities around the world are reembracing high-rise in urban agenda under current narrative of sustainable development. High-rise is fast becoming a priority area in international research agenda. The quest is for livable and sustainable high-rise development. Against the background of current trends--globalization, urbanization, mixed-use development, and new-built taller buildings in inner city areas in both developed and developing countries, this book examines the software: design, economics, estate management, legal and property rights, physical environment, planning, community development, and social dimensions of high-rise living. Analysis is with the widely acclaimed successful high-rise public housing in Hong Kong and Singapore to understand the advantages and worries of high-rise living, and to distill the key points and lessons in the making of a ‘good’ highrise living environment. Hong Kong and Singapore have been constructing high-rise for more than four decades each. The majority of their population has moved to live in high-rise, selecting to live high-rise, and registering consistently high residential satisfaction. The height of apartment buildings in both cities continues to rise. The tallest is anticipated to be 70-storey. It is the contention of this book that contrary to earlier common negative discourses on public high-rise living, the high-rise environment may yet offer urban residents a satisfying dwelling experience. Leading housing academics, researchers and practitioners in the two cities have contributed to this book. This book presents a timely contribution to our understanding of a widening urban phenomenon that will affect a growing number of the world’s population.

Author : Federico Caprotti,Li Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317284888

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Sustainable Cities in Asia by Federico Caprotti,Li Yu Pdf

With Asia’s cities undergoing unprecedented growth in the 21st century, lauded the ‘urban century’ by many, Sustainable Cities in Asia provides a timely examination of the challenges facing cities across the continent including some of the projects, approaches and solutions that are currently being tested. This book uses numerous case studies, analysing topical issues ranging from city cycling in India, to green spaces in China, to the use of community-led energy generation projects in post-Fukushima Japan. Containing contributions from an international team of scholars, it also takes a multi-disciplinary approach and draws on examples from a wide range of countries, including China, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Ultimately, by providing a comprehensive discussion of the broader debates around the shape of sustainable urbanism, it demonstrates that Asia is one of the most active regions in terms of the development of sustainable city strategies. Tackling the contemporary issues of key importance for sustainability, such as property markets, migration and transport, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Urban Geography, Sustainability, Environmental Studies and Asian studies.