East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape : Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0363-5

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East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape : Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth

dc.contributor.author	World Bank Group
dc.date.accessioned	2015-01-08T18:08:49Z
dc.date.available	2015-01-08T18:08:49Z
dc.date.issued	2015-01-25
dc.description.abstract	Urbanization is transforming the developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale, and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of consistent data. East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape aims to address this problem by using satellite imagery and other data to measure urban expansion across the East Asia and Pacific region between 2000 and 2010. Illustrated with maps and charts, it presents trends in urban expansion and population growth in more than 850 urban areas -- by country, urban area, income group, and city size categories. It discusses findings related to increasing urban population densities across the region and quantifies the administrative fragmentation of urban areas that cross local boundaries. The book discusses implications of the research and outlines potential policy options for governments that can help maximize the benefits of urban growth. These policy options include strategically acquiring land to prepare for future urban expansion; creating national urbanization policies that address the growth of the entire system of cities at once in order to support economically efficient urbanization; investing in small and medium urban areas; ensuring spatial access to the poor in order to make urban growth more inclusive; maximizing the benefits to the environment of existing urban density through location, coordination, and design of density; and creating mechanisms to support interjurisdictional cooperation across metropolitan areas. Leaders and policy makers at the national, provincial, and city levels who want to understand how trends in their cities compare with others in East Asia, as well as researchers and students interested in the transformative phenomenon of urbanization in the developing world, will find this book an invaluable resource.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0363-5
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4648-0363-5
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/21159
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Urban Development;
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	city growth
dc.subject	urban density
dc.subject	urban expansion
dc.subject	urban growth
dc.subject	urban land management
dc.subject	urban planning
dc.subject	urbanization
dc.title	East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape : Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.associatedcontent	http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/world-urban-forum Blog on world urban forum
okr.date.disclosure	2015-01-25
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Publication
okr.externalurl	http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/publication/east-asias-changing-urban-landscape-measuring-a-decade-of-spatial-growth
okr.externalurl	http://visualizing.org/contests/visualizing-urban-expansion-5
okr.externalurl	https://consultations.worldbank.org/consultation/urbanization-east-asia-explore-new-data-set
okr.externalurl	http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2015/01/26/urban-expansion-in-east-asia-indonesia
okr.externalurl	http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2015/01/26/malaysia-among-most-urbanized-countries-in-east-asia
okr.externalurl	http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2015/01/26/myanmar-urbanization-at-an-early-but-growing-stage
okr.externalurl	http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2015/01/26/urbanization-in-thailand-is-dominated-by-the-bangkok-urban-area
okr.externalurl	http://visualizing.org/contests/visualize-urban-expansion
okr.externalurl	http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2018/02/07/world-urban-forum
okr.globalpractice	Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0363-5
okr.identifier.report	93877
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.administrative	East Asia and Pacific
okr.region.geographical	East Asia
okr.topic	Urban Development::City Development Strategies
okr.topic	Urban Development::Municipal Housing and Land
okr.topic	Urban Development::National Urban Development Policies & Strategies
okr.topic	Urban Development::Urban Economic Development
okr.topic	Urban Development::Urban Governance and Management
okr.topic	Urban Development::Urban Housing
okr.topic	Urban Development::Urban Poverty
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Land Use and Policies
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Urban Communities
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Urban Housing and Land Settlements
okr.topic	Transport
okr.unit	Global Practice on Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience (GSURR)