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Book SynopsisTrade Review'What remains to be said about cities when the planet is completely urbanized? This astonishing new Handbook seeks answers in the megacity-regions of the world, especially in the burgeoning urban constellations of eastern Asia. The book's diverse and topical chapters help planners and decision-makers, and ultimately inhabitants, to ''find their bearings'' in the unmoored vastness of a planet of megacities.' --Roger Keil, York University, Canada
'The book fulfills a very timely mission: to reveal just how complex, varied, and multi-scaled the global urban reality has become - and is still becoming. The authors provide an antidote to simplifying notions about cities and megacities, updating our understanding of urban forces and dynamics, so that we might act upon them more effectively.'
--Jeb Brugmann, Founder, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, Germany and author, Welcome to the Urban Revolution
The Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions provides a much needed assessment of 21st century urbanization, especially with its attention to the scale and density that characterizes todays cities. Its nuanced discussion of how to define megacities and megacity-regions is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the most critical megatrends of our times.'
--Eugenie L. Birch, University of Pennsylvania, US
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Megacities, megacity-regions, and the endgame of urbanization 1 André Sorensen and Danielle Labbé PART I THE CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES OF MEGACITIES 2 Thinking about mega-conurbations and planning 21 John Friedmann 3 City limits: bounding and unbounding in conceptualizing the megacity 33 Michael Leaf 4 Urbanization and developmental pathways: critical junctures of urban transition 47 André Sorensen 5 El Monstruo : reflections on catastrophic metaphors about Mexico City 65 Julie-Anne Boudreau and Felipe de Alba PART II MEGA-URBAN GOVERNANCE 6 Urban governance of megacities: searching for the collective actor 78 Christian Lefèvre 7 Powerful states, weak states: understanding coercion and neglect in the governance of Marcos-era Manila 92 Nancy Kwak 8 Actors and shifting scales of urban governance in India 101 Loraine Kennedy 9 The incomplete and paradoxical ‘neoliberal turn’ in Mumbai 119 Marie-Hélène Zérah 10 Nurturing neighbourhoods to sustain quality of life in megacities and large city regions: an interdisciplinary reflection on planning for sustainable and socially just cities from Chile 134 Lake Sagaris, María Inés Arribas, María Inés Solimano, Sonia Reyes-Paecke and Juan Carlos Muñoz PART III MEGA-URBAN PATTERNS, FORMS AND PLANNING APPROACHES 11 Urban containment policies for megacities: the case of Beijing 153 Haoying Han 12 East Asian megacities: the view from the periphery 169 Douglas Webster and Jianyi Li 13 On the road again: the geography and characteristics of American commuter megaregions 188 Alasdair Rae and Garrett Dash Nelson 14 The West African corridor from Abidjan to Lagos: a megacity-region under construction 206 Armelle Choplin and Alice Hertzog 15 Cities: growing threats, growing opportunities 223 Daniel Hoornweg and Kevin Pope PART IV MEGA-URBAN LIFE SPACES AND LIVEABILITY 16 Navigating the extensiveness of Jakarta 234 AbdouMaliq Simone 17 Poverty in a wealthy megacity: stories from Tokyo’s alleys after the bubble burst 245 Heide Imai 18 Flooding as emotional politics in the Mexican megacity-region 261 Felipe de Alba PART V MEGA-URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES 19 Measuring progress toward sustainable megacities 278 Iain D. Stewart, Chris A. Kennedy and Angelo Facchini 20 Megacities at risk: the climate–energy conundrum 292 William E. Rees 21 Future megacity-regions and heatwave exposure 309 Peter J. Marcotullio, Carsten Keßler and Balázs M. Fekete 22 Megacity in the delta: managing water in Jakarta 327 Christopher Silver PART VI MEGA-URBAN ECONOMICS, REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY 23 Rethinking megacity-region development: the land–infrastructure– finance nexus as political project 345 Gavin Shatkin 24 The process of metropolization in megacity-regions 360 Rodrigo Cardoso and Evert Meijers 25 The emergence and economic restructuring of two global super megacity-regions in China: comparing the Pearl River and Yangtze River Deltas 376 Anthony G. O. Yeh, Xingjian Liu, Jili Xu and Mengdi Wu 26 The financialization of real estate in megacities and its variegated trajectories in East Asia 395 Natacha Aveline-Dubach Index 411
