Five cities : modelling Asian urban population-environment dynamics / editors, Gayl D. Ness with Michael M. Low



Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)

2000

Five cities : modelling Asian urban population-environment dynamics / editors, Gayl D. Ness with Michael M. Low

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How will Asian cities manage their revolutionary population-environment dynamics in the near future? What is the relation between population growth, environmental change, and the human quality of life? The book uses dynamic modelling to address these questions, with specific reference to the period between 1970 and 2020. Using the data from and experience of five cities up to 1995, it builds models of the relationship between population growth, environmental change and the quality of life. The study then uses STELLA, a dynamic modelling program, to project changes for the next 25 years. The five cities examined are Faisalabad, Pakistan; Khon Kaen, Thailand; Cebu City, the Philippines; Pusan, South Korea; and Kobe, Japan. Five Cities proposes that urban administrators use these modelling techniques to understand and assess their cities at present, and to make projections for the near future.

Subjects

Urbanization--Asia Cities and towns--Asia--Growth City planning--Asia Asia--Population

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Urban planning

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Title
Five cities : modelling Asian urban population-environment dynamics / editors, Gayl D. Ness with Michael M. Low
Subject
  • Urbanization--Asia
  • Cities and towns--Asia--Growth
  • City planning--Asia
  • Asia--Population
Publisher
  • Oxford University Press, 2000
  • National Library Board Singapore, 2000
Contributors
  • Ness, Gayl D.
  • Low, Michael M.
  • Asian Urban Information Center of Kobe
  • University of Michigan. Population-Environment Dynamics Project
Digital Description
application/pdf, [8] p. of plates ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
Table of Contents
  • vignettes, history, theory and methods. 1. Five cities: two by air and three by sea. 2. The long view: urban population-environment dynamics in historical perspective. 3. The methodological view: addressing Asian urban population-environment dynamics -- II. Five cities: individual case studies. 4. Faisalabad : a city under double pressures. 5. Khon Kaen: heart of the north-east. 6. Cebu City: heart of the central Philippines. 7. Pusan: promises and challenges of rapid growth. 8. Kobe City: well-managed population-environment dynamics -- III. Comparisons, lessons and implications. 9. Five cities: lessons of matter and method. 10. What is to be done?
Copyright
  • All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.