East West Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban Development

by Brotchie, John; Newton, Peter; Hall, Peter; Dickey, John

• ISBN13: 9781840143171
• ISBN10: 1840143177
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

This book examines the profound changes occurring in our society and in our cities as we move from an industrial economy at the regional level to a global economy and global markets based on information and knowledge and global communication and fast transport networks.These changes include: the expansion of these global networks enabling the globalization of markets for finance, services and goods; and the expansion of services, particularly information and producer services (high tech) and personal services (high touch).The out-sourcing of producer services from manufacturing to high amenity areas in major cities; and the out-sourcing of routine production to low cost areas, including developing Asia - with its large populations and low wage rates - is transforming both Eastern and Western cities. This transformation includes formation of multi-centred cities as consumer services seek suburban locations, the movement of large manufacturing plants to the suburban fringe or beyond and the formation of innovative milieux.There are high levels of urbanization in developing Asia as people are attracted to urban employment in manufacturing and services, resulting in the development of mega-cities and large urban-industrial agglomerations. These large cities are being transformed by Western architecture, with high rise air-conditioned, elevator serviced offices, hotels and apartments for information workers - but with the rest of the population in high density, informal sector homes and jobs, in a non air-conditioned environment made worse by waste heat and pollution form air-conditioners, other wastes and traffic congestion. The social tensions resulting here have increased with the recent meltdown of Asian currencies and consequent recession.

Author Biography

Professor Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London, London, UK. Professor Terry McGee, Director, Institute of Asian Research, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Professor Graeme Hugo, Department of Geography, University of Adelaide, South Australia. Dr Michael Lindfield, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Professor Robert Stimson, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Department of Geographical Sciences and Planning, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Dr Ibu Budhy Tjahjati Soegijoko, Chair Urban and Regional Development Institute, Deputy Chair, Foreign Cooperation Bappenas, Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia. Professor Kingsley Haynes, Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Professor Roger Stough, Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Professor Stephen Hamnett, School of Geoinformatics, Planning and Building, University of South Australia, Adelaide. Professor Michael Lennon, Regional and Urban Planning, University of Adelaide, South Australia. Dr Reza Kazemian Department of Architecture And Town Planning Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Waseda University Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. Professor Folke Snickars, Regional Planning Institute, Royal Institute o Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Professor Mamoru Taniguchi, Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Okayama University, Japan. Dr Peter Newton, Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Building Construction and Engineering, Melbourne, and Associate Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Peter Manins, Csiro Division of Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia. Dr Howard Dick, Department of Business Development and Corporate History, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia. Professor Peter Rimmer, Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra Professor Peter Newman, Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Western Australia. Dr Jeff Kenworthy, Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Western Australia. Dr Felix Laube, Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Western Australia. Dr John Brotchie, Csiro Building Construction and Engineering, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Peter Gipps, Csiro Building Construction and Engineering, Melbourne, Australia. Dr David James, Director, Eco Services, Sydney, Australia. Dr Don MacRae, Director, Plan Ecos, Canberra, Australia. Mr Jeremy Morris, Director, Morris Consultants, Canberra, Australia. Professor Gus Hooke, President, Australasian Institute, Sydney, Australia. Professor John Dickey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
PART I: THE RISE OF ASIAN MEGA-CITIES
Planning for the Mega-City: A New Eastern Asian Urban Form?	3	(34)
Peter Hall
Urbanisation in an Era of Volatile Globalisation: Policy Problematiques for the 21st Century	37	(16)
Terry McGee
Demographic Perspectives on Urban Development in Asia at the Turn of the Century	53	(36)
Graeme Hugo
Urban Economic Development and Globalisation Linkages in the Pacific Rim	89	(36)
Michael Lindfield
Robert Stimson
National Urban Development Strategy in Indonesia---Case Study: Jabotabek	125	(22)
Ibu Budhy Tjahjati Soegijoko
PART II: CHANGING WESTERN CITIES
Space, Technology and the Edge City: Patterns of Service and Infrastructure Investments---The US National Capital Region	147	(32)
Kingsley Haynes
Roger Stough
Strategic Planning and the Competitive City: Adelaide, South Australia	179	(34)
Stephen Hamnett
Michael Lennon
Net, City and Locality---Technological Impacts on Stockholm	213	(8)
Reza Kazemian
The Sustainable Network Society---A Scenario Study of Transport and Communications	221	(44)
Folke Snickars
PART III: URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL AMENITY
Environmental and Urban Amenity in a Growing Mega-City---Tokyo as a Blend of East and West	265	(12)
Mamoru Taniguchi
Cities and Air Pollution	277	(28)
Peter Newton
Peter Manins
Privatising Climate: First World Cities in South East Asia	305	(22)
Howard Dick
Peter Rimmer
PART IV: EAST WEST COMPARISONS
The Global City and Sustainability---Perspectives from Australian Cities and a Survey of 37 Global Cities	327	(28)
Peter Newman
Jeff Kenworthy
Felix Laube
Sustainability of Eastern and Western Cities	355	(24)
John Brotchie
Peter Gipps
David James
Don MacRae
Jeremy Morris
Income Shifts Between East and West	379	(12)
Gus Hooke
Epilogue	391	(12)
John Brotchie
Peter Newton
Peter Hall
John Dickey
Bibliography	403	(24)
Index	427