Changing Asian Urban Geographies: Urbanism and Peripheral Areas

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.

Through examining the intersection of global suburbanisation and Asian urbanism, the book depicts a complex (sub)urban world in Asia. It explains how the forces of globalisation, the logic of capital accumulation, and the history of rural-urban divide and interaction, path-dependent local institutions, and government policies work together to reshape the geographies o...