Asian Metropolis: Urbanisation and the Southeast Asian City

by Dean Forbes

From Vietnam to Indonesia, Singapore to Thailand, South-East Asia's economies are growing at unprecedented rates. This book penetrates the facade of contemporary city growth, exploring the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial city. It describes the divergence in urban development under capitalist and socialist regimes, and the gradual convergence in the post-reforms era of the 1990s. And it looks at the current problems of the fast growing metropolis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195534387
• ISBN13: 9780195534382
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"