Due to the high profile of the political situation in South Africa, developments in other countries in the region tend to be overlooked. Yet the area of Southern Africa is one of the most volatile in the Third World. The central aim of this book is to examine the spatial dimensions of contemporary change in the region and to explore the likely future directions of such change. Existing literature tends to concentrate on political change rather than its impact on the urbanization process. Moreover, it has also tended to focus on Africa as a whole or one particular state. Written by geographers...

Pacific Asia - from Burma to Papua New Guinea, to Japan - is a new name for a region which no longer looks to the West for geographical definition. It is the most dynamic and productive region in the developing world, the result of an economic explosion fuelled by the industrial activity of the four little tigers of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Pacific Asia is where the green revolution began, where there are more women in factory work than anywhere else; the region is also the most predominantly socialist in the Third World. Pacific Asia reviews the historical development of...