The Great Urban Transition: Landscape and Environmental Changes from Siberia, Shanghai, to Saigon

ISBN-13: 9783031059568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Peilei Fan

Opis

This monograph examines the (sub)urbanization process of seven transitional economies in Southeast, East, and North Asia (SENA), i.e., Siberia of Russia in North Asia, China and Mongolia in East Asia, and Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. In ten chapters, great urban transformation occurred in SENA is discussed, as well as the transitional period which aggravated urban environments in SENA cities and how ‘institutional shift,’ enabled by movements of urban residents and transitional urban governance, may facilitate the process and improve the urban environmental condition. This book includes land cover and land use data derived from satellite images over the past thirty years and intensive field research in more than thirty cities exploring the rise of these great cities and their environmental challenges.Unlike in western countries, the current urbanization process in Asian transitional economies is a hybrid product of market logic and state legacy and intervention, with these influences sometimes conflicting and at other times enhancing each other, under intensified globalization.
This book is of interest to researchers and students interested in landscape, urban studies, environment studies in particularly Asia, as well as planners and policy makers.

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Why Study Urbanization in Southeast, East, and North Asia (SENA)?

1.1  The scope

1.2  Study area: SENA

1.3  Research questions and hypothesis

1.4 The structure of the book

 

Chapter 2. The Research Design

2.1 Theoretical foundations

2.2 Conceptual Framework

2.3 Data and analysis

 

Part II. Land and Population

Chapter 3. Urban Land Transition

3.1 Uneven land transition across SENA countries

3.2 Urban land expansion 21 case cities in SENA

3.3 Land transition in Lanzhou, North Asia, and Vietnam

3.4 A glimpse of suburban landscapes in Shanghai

3.5 Conclusion

 

Chapter 4. Urban Population Dynamics

4.1 Rapid urban population growth in SENA

4.2 Population dynamics of the case cities

4.3 High and growing urban population density

4.4 Population settlements: Gated communities and informal settlements

4.5 Conclusion

 

Part III. Urban Environmental Challenges

Chapter 5. Urban Air Pollution

5.1 Global context of air pollution

5.2 Urban air pollution in SENA

5.3 North Asia: Air pollution increasingly concerned

5.4 East Asia: Severe air pollution and getting worse

5.5 Southeast Asia: Increasing air pollution

5.6 Discussion: Temporal and intra-city spatial variation

5.7 Conclusion

 

Chapter 6. Urban Green Space

6.1 Green space provision for cities across the globe

6.2 Green space in North Asian cities: preservation and conversion

6.3 Green space in East Asian cities: decline in UB vs. rise in Chinese cities

6.4 Southeast Asian cities: the loss of green space and lakes

6.5 Discussion Environmental impacts and accessibility of urban green space

6.6 Conclusion

 

 

Part IV. Driving Urbanization: The Visible Hand of the State

Chapter 7. Governing the Land

7.1 Changing institutions: from central to local, from global to regional

7.2 From state to private land ownership: Russia, Mongolia, and Cambodia

7.3 An upper hand in land use rights: China and Vietnam

7.4 Land concessions: Laos and Myanmar

7.5 Conclusion

 

Chapter 8. Transforming Urban Planning

8.1 Weakened role of planning: Russia and Mongolia

8.2 Strengthened role of planning: China and Vietnam

8.3 Foreign-assisted Planning: Cambodia, Laos PDR, and Myanmar

8.4 Discussion and Conclusion: Planning in the transitional period

 

 

Chapter 9. From Planning to the Change of Urban Landscape

9.1 Planning effectiveness: a quantitative measurement

9.2 Planning through center (re)development

9.3 Planning through setting up transportation lines

9.4 Planning through administrative area changes

9.5 Planning through the evolving role of industry

9.6 Conclusion

 

Chapter 10. Conclusion

10.1 Summary of findings

10.2 Characteristics of SENA experiences

10.3 Future prospect and implications for the Global South

 

Appendix 1. Profiles of Seven SENA Countries

Appendix 2. Profiles of 21 SENA Case Cities

 

Postface

O autorze

Peilei Fan, Ph.D., is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Planning, Design, and Construction at Michigan State University. She also holds a joint research appointment at the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations and is an adjunct faculty member of the Geography Department at MSU. Fan has a Ph.D. in Economic Development and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both from MIT. She has served as a consultant/economist for the United Nations University –World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the Asian Development Bank. Fan’s research focuses on urban environment and sustainability, public health, innovation and economic development, and planning and policy. Her research projects have been funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Fan is the secretary general of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (2019-2024). She also serves the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) as a member of the Finance & Investment Committee and as the Track Co-Chair for Food Systems (Track 9), Community Health and Safety. Fan is an editorial board member for the journal “Landscape and Urban Planning.” She was a Core Fulbright US Scholar for 2017-2018 (Taipei and Shanghai) and a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations (2019-20). Fan has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and been guest (co)editors for special issues of four academic journals. She served on the review panels for NASA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Fulbright, and been an ad-hoc reviewer for NSF and multiple international organizations.