Future Challenges of Cities in Asia
An Introduction
Gregory Bracken (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Paul Rabé (International institute for Asian Studies, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
R. Parthasarathy (University of California, University of British Columbia, Gujarat Institute of Development Research)
Neha Sami (Yale University, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, University of Michigan, University of Mumbai)
Bing Zhang (Tianjin University, Tongji University)
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Abstract
Sometime in the next year or two, a woman will give birth in the Lagos slum of Ajegunle, a young man will flee his village in west Java for the bright lights of Jakarta, or a farmer will move his impoverished family into one of Lima’s innumerable pueblos jóvenes. The exact event is unimportant, and it will pass entirely unnoticed. Nonetheless it will constitute a watershed in human history, comparable to the Neolithic or Industrial revolutions. For the first time, the urban population of the world will outnumber the rural.