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September 1976 - May 2001
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- Joint positions. Director Institute of Asian research, Professor of Geography
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This chapter focuses on the main challenges that the processes of demographic, spatial, and social political change present to current urbanization trends of the Asian region. The chapter argues that one of the major challenges is the present development trajectory of many Asian countries, which emphasizes economic growth, increasing integration in...
In the last two decades, China has moved rapidly to reach a level of urbanization that, by various estimates, reached 50 percent by the end of 2010. This figure, which is often used as a threshold for defining an urbanized society, is subject to much debate because of the methods adopted in Chinese statistical systems of data definition and collect...
This paper explores two issues. First, it focuses on the question of what is the most appropriate theoretical framework for the study of the urbanisation process in China and Vietnam over the last 30 years? It is argued that Le Fefebvre's theory of the ‘production of urban space’ offers the most useful approach because the political economy it adop...
This address is in the nature of a series of reflections on underlying intellectual premises that characterize the relationship between Western geographers (defined as those practitioners who generally reside in Anglo‐America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand) and the part of the world called Asia. The argument presented is that this rela...
This article explores the special features of the rural–urban transformation in East Asia in the last 30years within the
broader context of the development strategies of Asian governments. Despite an ongoing commitment to the rhetoric of concern
with rural development, food security and the alleviation of rural poverty, these policies have emphasis...
China's urban growth is unparalleled in the history of global urbanization, and will undoubtedly create huge challenges to China as it modernizes its society. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an overview of the radical transformation of China's urban space since the 1970s, arguing that to study the Chinese urbanization pro...
Because the recent revivals of market and democracy have occured on a world-wide scale, and because they are categorically abstract and generalizing ideas, universalism has once again become a viable source for social theory. Notions of commonality and institutional convergence have re-emerged, and with them the possibilities for intellectuals to p...
From economic miracle to financial crisis in South-East Asia: erosion of social achievements and a return to poverty ?
Since the nineteen sixties, most of the countries in South-East Asia have made significant progress both in terms of economic growth and social well-being. Agricultural productivity, industrialisation and urban development have lea...
This study examines the labour market outcomes of the recent economic crisis (krismon) in Indonesia, focusing on the change of employment structure between 1997 and 1998. Indonesia's labour market has been extremely flexible in adjusting itself during the crisis. Labour has moved from “modern” economic sectors to agricultural and “informal” sectors...
The paper links discussions of poverty with the volatility brought about by globalization. It synthesizes the outcomes of a year-long comparative study involving researchers from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines examining the social safety net programs introduced in Southeast Asia as a result of the financial crisis that b...
The Tumen River Area Development Project is a plan for a transport mega-complex at the mouth of the Tumen River on the Sea of Japan. Because the three major stake holders are the People's Republic of China, Russia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea the project raises complex jurisdictional and economic problems. We review the context in...
China's distinctive experience of socialist transition in a partially marketizing economy serves as a unique rubric for examining the critical processes and mechanisms of rural-urban transformation in Asia. Perhaps the most important reason for paying attention to the socialist transition in China, however, is the truly intriguing and unique patter...
Since 1986, Vietnam has been embarked upon a series of measures designed to accelerate the growth of the market economy by allowing private enterprise and liberalising foreign investment. This paper analyses the likely urbanisation patterns of Vietnam based upon a scenario of the rapid development of a mixed economy, with a large private sector ope...
Indonesia was used as an example of a country that, in the 1960s, was beset with persistent poverty, a large informal sector, and agricultural involution. Indonesia's population increased to more than 180 million by 1990; the population was unevenly distributed and was concentrated on the island of Java. A proposed scenario for Indonesia in 2020 wo...
Part 1 Cities: economic development and urbanization - the Classical tradition urbanization and economic development - territorial specialization and policy some trends in the evolution of big cities - case studies of the USA and India. Part 2 Class: on the "Petty Bourgeoisie" - Marx and the 20th century the international migration of labour newly...
L’Asie est au bord d’une explosion urbaine, avec un accroissement de 1 680 millions d’habitants entre 1980 et 2020. Cet accroissement se produira en grande partie dans les grandes mégapoles en train d’apparaître. Cet article tente d’expliquer le processus en cours.
Asian urbanization is entering a new phase that differs significantly from the patterns of city growth experienced in other developing countries and in the developed world. According to a recent hypothesis, zones of intensive economic interaction between rural and urban activities are emerging. The zones appear to be a new form of socioeconomic org...
"This article analyses the growth of large Extended Metropolitan Regions in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the period since 1960. The analysis reveals two trends. First, urbanization levels in ASEAN countries are rapidly increasing. By the year 2000, almost 40 per cent of the population will be urban residents. Second, these...
Analyses the growth of urban areas in Taiwan. In discussing the process of Taiwan's urban and periurban development, uses the Indonesian word kotadesasi: joining kota (town) and desa (village) to make up a word which carried the concept of urban and rural activity occurring in the same geographic territory. In kotadesasi regions, overlapping urban...
Most Asian governments are faced with sets of policy issues that are a result of rapid urbanization, one set of which is concerned with increasing productive employment and basic levels of infrastructure, housing, and welfare for urban populations. The focus of this article is on this aspect and it provides an overview of the urbanization process i...
In the great cities of Latin America and Asia, international business and local firms meet and, in particular, influence teh development strategies of Third World countries. The authors of Theatres of Accumulation argue that these cities play a crucial role in the process of capital accumulation and of unequal exchange and dependency. They examine...
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Attention was called over 3 decades ago to the very rapid growth of Third World cities and the significance of the differences between their patterns of urbanization and those of industrialized countries. Their demographic growth occurred much faster and depended much more heavily on high fertility, their economies were geared more to export o...
Attention was called over 3 decades ago to the very rapid growth of Third World cities and the significance of the differences between their patterns of urbanization and those of industrialized countries. Their demographic growth occurred much faster and depended much more heavily on high fertility their economies were geared more to export of raw...
Broad types and stages in the geography of development are identified. Notwithstanding their interest, these approaches have not adequately explained the processes of development, such as growth of wage labour. In earlier studies of these processes, during the sixties and seventies, the author had foreseen that proletarianization of labour would no...
By means of case studies of Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok and Penang, Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay, Katmandu, Jakarta, Cairo and Dubai, the author illustrates a range of techniques which enable the urban professional to observe and comprehend the salient features of a city, and to assess the future course of its development. Particular...
Discusses the role of multi-national corporations on development with particular emphasis on Asian nations. Traces the change from import substitution policies of the 50's and 60's to an export policy in the 70's. Makes the point that as more economic integration occurs through the medium of multi-locational and multi-functional firms, the developm...
The prevailing conception that peasants are rural people was recently challenged by the publication of Peasants in Cities, a collection of essays on urban peasants. The editor, William Mangin, suggests that the definition of urban peasants is based on their retention of "rural culture" in the city. This paper challenges that definition and suggests...
This presentation explores the particular features of the rural-urban transformation in East Asia in the last twenty years set within the broader context of the development strategies of Asian government. These policies have emphasized the role of urbanization as the prime process facilitating economic growth and structural shifts in their national...
Books reviewed: Paul C. Cheshire and Edwin S. Mills (eds.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vol. 3: Applied Urban Economics Donald G. Janelle and David C. Hodge (eds.), Information, Place, and Cyberspace: Issues in Accessibility Carey McWilliams, California: The Great Exception Office of the Philadelphia City Controller, Philadelphia: A N...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 1968.
