The City in Southeast Asia: Patterns, Processes and Policy

by Howard W. Dick and Peter J. Rimmer

The City in Southeast Asia explores the ways of moving beyond outmoded paradigms of the Third World City. Under "Patterns," the authors look at the "global cities" of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur, and then the national capitals of Bangkok, Jakarta, and Manila, in relation to the second cities of Chiang Mai, Surabaya, Cebu, and Penang. "Processes" focuses upon the privitization of climate through air-conditioned environments, the industrialization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824833139
• ISBN13: 9780824833138
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"