Urbanization in Large Developing Countries China, Indonesia, Brazil, and India

by Jones, Gavin W.; Visaria, Pravin

• ISBN13: 9780198289746
• ISBN10: 019828974X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-08
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Urbanization is a key process in developing countries. Within the next decade over 50 per cent of the world's population will inhabit urban areas and the majority of this growth is concentrated in developing countries. Analysing data for four large countries, this volume focuses on the relationship between economic change and urban growth. Specifically the authors examine the continued growth of industrial employment at the expense of the agricultural sector, the impact of government-controlled regional andindustrial policy and the role of migration in response to employment opportunities. There are also important chapters on government responses to the lack of basic infrastructure, and the resulting negative impact on human welfare, in the cities. The volume's coherence results from the cross-countrycomparisons made by the authors and the conclusions that are not geographically restricted but have potential applications, by urban planners, in all developing countries.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix	(2)
List of Figures	xi	(1)
List of Maps	xii	(1)
List of Tables	xiii
1 Urbanization of the Third World Giants	1	(28)
Gavin W. Jones
Pravin Visaria
Part I: China	29	(80)
Introduction	29	(2)
Lin You Su
2 Structural and Spatial Economic Changes and their Effects on Recent Urbanization in China	31	(21)
Jing Neng Li
3 The Effects of National Urban Strategy and Regional Development Policy on Patterns of Urban Growth in China	52	(17)
Aprodicio Laquian
4 Migration and Urbanization in China	69	(17)
Lin You Su
5 Urban Housing Reforms in China, 1979-89	86	(23)
Yok-shiu F. Lee
Part II: Indonesia	109	(94)
Introduction	109	(2)
Gavin W. Jones
6 Structural Change and Urbanization in Indonesia: From the `Old' to the `New' International Division of Labour	111	(31)
Mike Douglass
7 The Increasing Role of the Urban Non-formal Sector in Indonesia: Employment Analysis within a Multisectoral Framework	142	(18)
Iwan Jaya Aziz
8 The Indonesian National Urban Development Strategy and its Relation to Policy and Planning	160	(20)
Peter Gardiner
9 Urban Housing and Infrastructure Provision and Financing in Indonesia	180	(23)
Mustaram Koswara
Part III: Brazil	203	(60)
Introduction	203	(2)
Donald Sawyer
10 Economic and Demographic Concentration in Brazil: Recent Inversion of Historical Patterns	205	(23)
George Martine
Clelio Campolina Diniz
11 Industrial Location Policy and the Urbanization Process in Brazil	228	(17)
Paolo Roberto Haddad
12 Urbanization of the Brazilian Frontier	245	(18)
Donald Sawyer
Part IV: India	263	(64)
Introduction	263	(3)
Pravin Visaria
13 Urbanization in India: An Overview	266	(23)
Pravin Visaria
14 Industrial Location Policies and their Implications for India	289	(26)
Rakesh Mohan
15 Extent and Implications of Rural-Urban Migration in India	315	(6)
T. S. Papola
16 Conclusion: The Prospects	321	(6)
Gavin W. Jones
Pravin Visaria
Bibliography	327	(18)
Index	345