East Asia s Changing Urban LandscapeEast Asia s Changing Urban Landscape

2015-01-07 World Bank

As of 2010, 81 percent of the urban population of Thailand lived there (down from 84 percent in 2000). Figure A.37 Thailand: Urban land by population size category, 2000. 114 East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape.

Author: World Bank

Publisher: World Bank Publications

ISBN: 9781464803642

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This study uses satellite imagery and population data for the decade 2000 to 2010 in order to map urban areas and populations across the entire East Asia region, identifying 869 urban areas with populations over 100,000, allowing us for the first time to understand patterns in urbanization in East Asia.

Cities around the World Struggles and Solutions to Urban Life 2 volumes Cities around the World Struggles and Solutions to Urban Life 2 volumes

2019-07-31 Jing Luo

“East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape: Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth.” World Bank, September 20. http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic /urbandevelopment/publication/east-asias-changing-urban-landscape-measuring ...

Author: Jing Luo

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781440853869

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This two-volume set offers a comprehensive overview of major challenges faced by cities worldwide in the 21st century, and how cities in different geographic, economic, and political conditions are finding solutions to them. • Offers students more than a simple A–Z encyclopedia of the world's major cities by delving deep into the issues that these urban centers face • Includes approximately 100 entries on a multitude of issues in a variety of cities around the world, from Abu Dhabi to Zurich • Includes photographs to help to illuminate and provide visual support to the text • Features entries written by more than 30 scholars with backgrounds in a variety of disciplines, contributing to a well-rounded, comprehensive text

Red Star over the Pacific Revised EditionRed Star over the Pacific Revised Edition

2018-12-15 Toshi Yoshihara

World Bank Group, “East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape: Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth,” January 26, 2015, http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/publication/east-asias-changing-urban-landscape-measuring- ...

Author: Toshi Yoshihara

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

ISBN: 9781682473573

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This is an assessment of how the rise of Chinese seapower will affect U.S. maritimes strategy in Asia.

East Asia ModernEast Asia Modern

2005-08-15 Peter G. Rowe

Peter G. Rowe's East Asia Modern is a timely comparative analysis of urban growth in this rapidly evolving part of the globe.

Author: Peter G. Rowe

Publisher: Reaktion Books

ISBN: 9781861895363

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An exciting explosion of urban expansion is occurring in East Asia: cities such as Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai are expanding at a prodigious rate and bringing widespread change to the region. Peter G. Rowe's East Asia Modern is a timely comparative analysis of urban growth in this rapidly evolving part of the globe. A renowned scholar on East Asian architecture and urbanism, Peter G. Rowe examines how the unique modernizing process of East Asian cities can be most usefully understood. Rowe offers a historical assessment of the region, chronicling the cities' development over the last century and setting into context their individual paths toward becoming modern. Rowe explains what the modernizing process has meant for the cultural diffusion of predominantly Western ideas, how East Asian urban regions have developed a distinct type of modernity, and what lessons can be gleaned from the contemporary East Asian experience. Refuting many common misconceptions about contemporary East Asian life, East Asia Modern offers a readable critical assessment of life in modern East Asia while also pointing to possibilities for the future.

Prostitution and Sex Work in Global CinemaProstitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema

2017-10-30 Danielle Hipkins

As these three very different films show, the interaction between the prostitute and the urban environ in which she resides is never simple. 10. 11. NOTES 1. The World Bank Report, 'East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape: Measuring a ...

Author: Danielle Hipkins

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319646084

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This volume brings together international scholars to engage in the question of how film has represented a figure that for many is simply labelled ‘prostitute’. The prostitute is one of the most enduring female figures. She has global historical resonance and stories, images and narratives surrounding her, and her experiences, circulate transnationally. As this book will explore, the broad term prostitute can cover a variety of experiences and representations that are both repressive and also have the potential to empower women and disrupt cultural expectations. The contributors aim to consider how frequently 19th-century narratives of female prostitution—hence the label ‘fallen women’—are still recycled in contemporary visual contexts, and to understand how widespread, and in what contexts, the destigmatization of female sex work is underway on screen.

HIV and Young PeopleHIV and Young People

2015-11-30 Gary Jones

East Asia's changing urban landscape: Measuring a decade of spiritual growth. Retrieved from http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/publication/ east-asias-changing-urban-landscape-measuring-a-decade-of-spatial-growth World ...

Author: Gary Jones

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319268149

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Revisiting the thinking on vulnerability to HIV and risk of infection, this book provides better understanding by considering the risk of HIV infection alongside notions of personal and collective resilience, dignity and humiliation. The work shows that young people in the urban slum dignify their world and, in doing so, establish priorities and draw on a set of references oftentimes intelligible to them alone. Moreover, humiliation, as an interpersonal event, adds to a sense of vulnerability and lies closely behind choices directly affecting personal health and livelihood. Thus, dignity and humiliation are shown for the first time to have a critical role in health seeking and risky behavior related to HIV, and this is an area in great need of further research. The crucial focus of this work is further emphasized by the rapid growth of urban slums, and high rates of HIV among both slum dwellers and young people, who continue to bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic, thirty years on. This comprehensive literature review provides a compelling argument that the time is right to further explore the nexus of risk and resilience from a people-centered perspective. Fresh insight is critical to reach the goal of ending AIDS by 2030.

Changing Urban LandscapesChanging Urban Landscapes

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See: G. Enyedi, ed., Social Change and Urban Restructuring in Central Europe (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, ... Central and Eastern Europe: Towards Globalization (Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press, 2005); S. Tsenkova, ...

Author: AA. VV.

Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice

ISBN: 9788867281213

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The vast territory from Asia to Eastern Europe that was part of or under the influence of the Soviet Union comprised cities, which have undergone profound changes in the last twenty years. The opening of borders combined with the affirmation of market dynamics, privatization and concentration of wealth, and the emergence of nationalist discourses have upset ways of life and value systems leaving deep marks on the urban landscape and organization of living space. These essays take an in-depth look at specific cases – Samarkand, Sarajevo, Berlin, Almaty, and others – to offer a complex picture of the transformations affecting the post-communist city.

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional StudiesThe Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

2019-04-15 Anthony M. Orum

494 EAST ASIAN URBANIZATION Ecology and Cities JESÚS VICENS University of Barcelona, Spain Douglass, M. 1998. “East Asian Urbanization: Patterns, Problems, ... East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape: Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth.

Author: Anthony M. Orum

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781118568453

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Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures the character of complex urban and regional dynamics across the globe, including timely entries on Latin America, Africa, India and China. At the same time, it contains illuminating entries on some of the current concepts that seek to grasp the essence of the global world today, such as those of Friedmann and Sassen on ‘global cities’. It also includes discussions of recent economic writings on cities and regions such as those of Richard Florida. Comprised of over 450 entries on the most important topics and from a range of theoretical perspectives Features authoritative entries on topics ranging from gender and the city to biographical profiles of figures like Frank Lloyd Wright Takes a global perspective with entries providing coverage of Latin America and Africa, India and China, and, the US and Europe Includes biographies of central figures in urban and regional studies, such as Doreen Massey, Peter Hall, Neil Smith, and Henri Lefebvre The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies is an indispensable reference for students and researchers in urban and regional studies, urban sociology, urban geography, and urban anthropology.

The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific RimThe Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim

2022-03-17 Yizhao Yang

Further , it is essential to consider the unique characteristics , cultures , communities , and peoples of our Pacific region , and encourage ... In East Asia's changing urban landscape : Measuring a decade of spatial growth .

Author: Yizhao Yang

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000532500

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This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental to sustainable development policies and planning practices. These include the connection between cities and surrounding landscapes, across different boundaries and scales; the persistence of environmental and development inequities; and the growing impacts of global climate change, including how physical conditions and social implications are being anticipated and addressed. Building upon localized knowledge and contextualized experiences, this edited collection brings attention to place-based approaches across the Pacific Rim and makes an important contribution to the scholarly and practical understanding of sustainable urban development models that have mostly emerged out of the Western experiences. Nine sections, each grounded in research, dialogue, and collaboration with practical examples and analysis, focus on a theme or dimension that carries critical impacts on a holistic vision of city-landscape development, such as resilient communities, ecosystem services and biodiversity, energy, water, health, and planning and engagement. This international edited collection will appeal to academics and students engaged in research involving landscape architecture, architecture, planning, public policy, law, urban studies, geography, environmental science, and area studies. It also informs policy makers, professionals, and advocates of actionable knowledge and adoptable ideas by connecting those issues with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The collection of writings presented in this book speaks to multiyear collaboration of scholars through the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Program and its global network, facilitated by SCL Annual Conferences and involving more than 100 contributors from more than 30 institutions. The Open Access version of chapters 1, 2, 4, 11, 17, 23, 30, 37, 42, 49, and 56 of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003033530, have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Routledge Handbook of Asian DemographyRoutledge Handbook of Asian Demography

2017-12-14 Zhongwei Zhao

World Bank ( 2015 ) East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape : Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth . Washington , DC : The World Bank . Zhao , S. , C. Peng , H. Jiang , D. Tian , X. Lei and X. Zhou ( 2006 ) ' Land use change in Asia and ...

Author: Zhongwei Zhao

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351373456

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Home to close to 60 per cent of the world’s population, Asia is the largest and by far the most populous continent. It is also extremely diverse, physically and culturally. Asian countries and regions have their own distinctive histories, cultural traditions, religious beliefs and political systems, and they have often pursued different routes to development. Asian populations also present a striking array of demographic characteristics and stages of demographic transition. This handbook is the first to provide a comprehensive study of population change across the whole of Asia. Comprising 28 chapters by more than 40 international experts this handbook examines demographic transitions on the continent, their considerable variations, their causes and consequences, and their relationships with a wide range of social, economic, political and cultural processes. Major topics covered include: population studies and sources of demographic data; historical demography; family planning and fertility decline; sex preferences; mortality changes; causes of death; HIV/AIDS; population distribution and migration; urbanization; marriage and family; human capital and labour force; population ageing; demographic dividends; political demography; population and environment; and Asia’s demographic future. This handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive reference for researchers, policymakers, academics, students and anyone who is interested in population change in Asia and the world.