Housing in Southeast Asian capital cities:

The author presents some of the wider debates on housing and development while focusing on the major Southeast Asian capital cities: Jakarta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Metro Manila. All of these have expanded enormously in terms of population and size, all have enormous problems ranging from provisi...

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Main Author: Ooi, Giok Ling (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2005
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary:The author presents some of the wider debates on housing and development while focusing on the major Southeast Asian capital cities: Jakarta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Metro Manila. All of these have expanded enormously in terms of population and size, all have enormous problems ranging from provision of clean water and sustainable housing for the poor to dealing with the constant inflow of urban migrants. Despite this, most city governments remain worryingly ineffectual or uncommitted to solving urgent problems of their expanding cities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 90 pages)
ISBN:9789812307002

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