Directors of urban change in Asia / / edited by Peter J.M. Nas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449786003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-134-26737-1; 1-280-28137-5; 9786610281374; 0-203-02321-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Collana: Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ; ; 9
• Classificazione: 71.14
• Altri autori (Persone): NasP
• Disciplina: 307.76/095
• Soggetti: Urban policy - Asia; City planning - Asia; Urbanization - Asia; Cities and towns - Asia - Growth; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on papers presented at the international workshop Mega-urbanization in Asia and Europe : directors of urban change in a comparative perspective, held in Leiden, 12-14 December 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: directors of urban change / Peter J.M. Nas -- Colombo / Siri T. Hettige -- Guangzhou City: ever-changing urban planning / Zhou Daming -- Hanoi: between the imperfect past and the conditional future / Hans Schenk -- Jakarta: conflicting directions / Pratiwo and Peter J.M. Nas -- Kuala Lumpur and Singapore: high hopes versus a low profile / Freek Colombijn -- Makassar: set, backstage and a diva in an Indonesian secondary city / Christoph Antweiler -- Metro Manila: designers or directors of urban development? / Otto van den Muijzenberg and Ton van Naerssen -- Nanjing: promoting the ICT sector / Meine Pieter van Dijk -- Semarang: was H.F. Tillema a director of urban change? / Peter J.M. Nas and Kirsten Theuns -- Surabaya: the bridge to Madura / Manuelle Franck -- Tehran: a mega-city built without a vision / Soheila Shahshahani -- Tokyo: paradise of speculators and builders / Shuji Funo.
• Sommario/riassunto: Bringing together a group of international scholars, Directors of Urban Change in Asia examines who the 'directors' for urban change are in an eclectic mix of Asian cities. The books discusses how, in the majority of cases, urban change has come about primarily as the result of visionary leaders, on national, regional and local levels. It also makes clear that the less successful cities have tended to lack such leaders.