Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions

Contents:

1 Megacities, megacity-regions, and the endgame of urbanization 1
Andre Sorensen and Danielle Labbe

PART I THE CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES OF MEGACITIES
2 Thinking about mega-conurbations and planning 21
John Friedmann
3 City limits: bounding and unbounding in conceptualizing the megacity 33
Michael Leaf
4 Urbanization and developmental pathways: critical junctures of urban
transition 47
Andre Sorensen
5 El Monstruo : reflections on catastrophic metaphors about Mexico City 65
Julie-Anne Boudreau and Felipe de Alba

PART II MEGA-URBAN GOVERNANCE
6 Urban governance of megacities: searching for the collective actor 78
Christian Lefevre
7 Powerful states, weak states: understanding coercion and neglect in the
governance of Marcos-era Manila 92
Nancy Kwak
8 Actors and shifting scales of urban governance in India 101
Loraine Kennedy
9 The incomplete and paradoxical 'neoliberal turn' in Mumbai 119
Marie-Helene Zerah
10 Nurturing neighbourhoods to sustain quality of life in megacities
and large city regions: an interdisciplinary reflection on planning for
sustainable and socially just cities from Chile 134
Lake Sagaris, Maria Ines Arribas, Maria Ines Solimano, Sonia Reyes-Paecke
and Juan Carlos Munoz

PART III MEGA-URBAN PATTERNS, FORMS AND PLANNING APPROACHES
11 Urban containment policies for megacities: the case of Beijing 153
Haoying Han
12 East Asian megacities: the view from the periphery 169
Douglas Webster and Jianyi Li
13 On the road again: the geography and characteristics of American
commuter megaregions 188
Alasdair Rae and Garrett Dash Nelson
14 The West African corridor from Abidjan to Lagos: a megacity-region
under construction 206
Armelle Choplin and Alice Hertzog
15 Cities: growing threats, growing opportunities 223
Daniel Hoornweg and Kevin Pope

PART IV MEGA-URBAN LIFE SPACES AND LIVEABILITY
16 Navigating the extensiveness of Jakarta 234
AbdouMaliq Simone
17 Poverty in a wealthy megacity: stories from Tokyo's alleys after the
bubble burst 245
Heide Imai
18 Flooding as emotional politics in the Mexican megacity-region 261
Felipe de Alba

PART V MEGA-URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
19 Measuring progress toward sustainable megacities 278
Iain D. Stewart, Chris A. Kennedy and Angelo Facchini
20 Megacities at risk: the climate-energy conundrum 292
William E. Rees
21 Future megacity-regions and heatwave exposure 309
Peter J. Marcotullio, Carsten Kessler and Balazs M. Fekete
22 Megacity in the delta: managing water in Jakarta 327
Christopher Silver

PART VI MEGA-URBAN ECONOMICS, REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY
23 Rethinking megacity-region development: the land-infrastructure-
finance nexus as political project 345
Gavin Shatkin
24 The process of metropolization in megacity-regions 360
Rodrigo Cardoso and Evert Meijers
25 The emergence and economic restructuring of two global super
megacity-regions in China: comparing the Pearl River and Yangtze
River Deltas 376
Anthony G. O. Yeh, Xingjian Liu, Jili Xu and Mengdi Wu
26 The financialization of real estate in megacities and its variegated
trajectories in East Asia 395
Natacha Aveline-Dubach

Index 411

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• Obras de referência
• Planeamento urbano e municipal
• Geografia humana
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Megacities; Megacity-regions; Urbanization; Governance; Infrastructure; Sustainability; Urban environments; Climate change