Globalization and the sustainability of cities in the Asia Pacific region

Dublin Core

In Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia-Pacific Region, scholars from around the region analyse the impacts of globalisation on cities in the Asia-Pacific. This collection of essays forms a useful, comprehensive and ambitious study, focusing on the region's specific urban concerns and on broader theoretical issues surrounding social and environmental conditions in major metropolitan centres.

The first part of the book examines globalisation, foreign direct investment, international migration, and the question of cities and their changing patterns and meanings. The second part focuses on particular types of cities: Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei are post industrial capital exporting cities; Hong Kong and Singapore are cited as borderless cities; while Shanghai, Jabotabek and Bangkok are examined in terms of having very high globalisation driven growth but also have become highly polluted environments. The final section focuses on amenity cities, where Sydney and Vancouver are the two cases examined. These chapters demonstrate how environmental awareness can be part of urban growth and provide evidence that globalization is not promoting urban environmental and social sustainability.

Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia-Pacific Region demonstrates the growing interconnections among cities in the region that have come about as a result of globalization. It raises implications for the study of social and environmental conditions as well as economic growth in cities. Sustainable urban development requires more than good management and local politics; increasingly, it demands national, regional and global interventions.