Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities - Singh, R.B.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
Introducing Asian Mega City Environment -- Analysing Asia's mega-cities and mega-urban-region dynamics using Geopolis database -- Future of Asian Mega Cities -- Urban Water Risk in Asian Mega Cities -- Urban Planning, Governance and Management Dealing with Climate Change in Indian Mega Cities -- Japanese Experiences -- Spatial changes in the socioeconomic aspects of the Tokyo metropolitan area after the 1980s -- Urban heat islands in Tokyo -- Osaka as the nation's second-largest mega city -- distinctive trajectories of industrial, commercial and consumer city -- Indian Experiences -- Chennai: Questioning the sustainability of an emerging mega-city - economy, environment and governance -- Local Action Planning for Pro-Poor Urban governance in the Southern Mega City of Chennai, India -- Population Dynamics in Calcutta Metropolitan Region: Implications for Planning and Governance -- Changing Environment, Physical Landscape and Emerging Heat Islands in Kolkata Metropolitan Region -- Role of local level relative humidity on the development of urban heat island across the Delhi Metropolitan Region -- Urban Political Ecology in megacities: The case of Delhi's waste water -- Spatial Correlation of Changing Land Use, Surface Temperature (UHI) and NDVI in Delhi Using Landsat Satellite Images -- Housing in Hyderabad -- Nutritional Status of Men and Women in Mumbai: Is There Any Imbalance across Slums and Non-Slums -- Chinese Experiences -- Spatio-temporal evolution of urban structure in Shanghai" -- The Population Distribution and Urban Development polices in Shanghai -- Urban Expansion in the Yangtze River Delta in a High Economic Growth Period-A Comparison between Wuxi and Kunshan in Metropolitan Fringe of Shanghai -- Urban restructuring of Beijing City after the reform and open policy -- Changing Climate and Air Quality in the Fast-urbanization Pearl River Delta region of Southern China -- Urban growth in a rapidly urbanised mega city -Wuhan, P.R.China -- Other Asian Mega Cities Experiences -- Singapore's Global City Challenges: National Identity, Cosmopolitan Aspirations, Migrant Requirements Urban Development in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- Spatial Dynamics of the Automobile Industry in the Extended Bangkok Metropolitan Region -- Jakarta Megacity (Jabodetabek): from City Development toward Urban Complex Development System.
Keywords: Regional planning; Urban planning; Sustainable development; Climate change; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Sustainable Development; Climate Change Management and Policy