Title The city as a centre of change in Asia / editor, D. J. Dwyer

Published [Hongkong] : Hongkong University Press, [1972] ©1972

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Description xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series Centre of Asian Studies series ; no. 4 University of Hong Kong. University. Centre of Asian Studies series. Centre of Asian Studies bibliographies ; no. 4 Centre of Asian Studies series ; no. 4 Summary The present volume is the product of a conference on the "City as a Centre of Change in Asia," which was convened at the University of Hong Kong in 1969. The conference sought mainly to explore the range and dimensions of urban problems in Asia and to consider the relevance of the Hong Kong experience in dealing with such problems. In bringing together planners and scholars from a number of Asian countries as well as from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, the conference served a useful purpose in facilitating an exchange of views. But, as is so often the case with published versions of conference proceedings, this collection of 20 papers does not, unfortunately, convey the impression that the conference stimulated much original thinking on many of the crucial issues associated with urbanization problems in Asia. This is especially disappointing in light of the editor's obvious awareness of and sensitivity to many important theoretical questions which were presumably raised in the conference discussions but which were inadequately considered in the prepared papers. -- from http://www.jstor.org (March 20, 2014) Notes Includes bibliography Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Also available online Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader Subject University of Hong Kong. Centre of Asian Studies series. Centre of Asian Studies bibliographies -- no. 4 City planning -- Asia. Cities and towns -- Asia -- Growth. Cities and towns -- Asia. Housing -- Asia. Urban renewal -- Asia. Urbanization -- Asia. Asia -- Economic conditions -- 1945- Asia -- Social conditions. Author Dwyer, D. J. (Denis John) University of Hong Kong. Centre of Asian Studies. LC no. 75330555 ISBN 085656009X 9780856560095

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