Globalization and Networked Societies: Urban-regional Change in Pacific Asia

✍ Scribed by Yue-man Yeung

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 305
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Globalization, along with globalism, continues its unrelenting and accelerating march as it draws more countries, cities, and people closer into interdependent relationships. This volume attempts to tease out some of the salient elements of this process, especially as it has affected urban centres in Pacific Asia over the last 20 years of the 20th century. All countries in the region are covered in this work, with special attention given to Hong Kong and to China, a late bloomer in the Asia scene but nevertheless one that has experienced phenomenal growth and accelerated globalization in recent decades. The empirical analyses reveal the outcome, dilemmas and meanings of globalization in the urban-regional scene. Equally grounded in theoretical and empirical perspectives, the volume seeks to offer cogent explanations of why the western Pacific Rim has become the fastest growth region in the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1 Overview
1 Pacific Asia in the Context of Globalization
2 Globalization and World Cities
Part 2 Cooperative Regional Development
3 The Emergence of Growth Triangles
4 Infrastructure Development in the Southern China Growth Triangle
PART 3 China and Hong Kong
5 Metropolitan Planning and Management in China
6 Guangdong’s Rapid Change as a Coastal Province
7 Shanghai’s Transformation and Modernization under China’s Open Policy
8 Sustainable Urban Development in China and Hong Kong
PART4 Urban Futures
9 Planning Hong Kong for 1997 and Beyond
10 Globalization and Urban Futures
Epilogue: Asia’s Financial Crisis and Its Implications
References
Index

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