Against the background of accelerating globalization and growing economic interdependence in Northeast Asia over the past two decades, including the recent global economic crisis, this book sets out t
The world in the last two decades of the twentieth century fundamentally and radically changed at a speed and on a scale never before witnessed. The challenge posed at the beginning of the third mille
This is a collection of 13 papers presented at a conference held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific St
Many people, including seasoned observers from Western countries, harboured doubts about the return of sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in 1997. They were not optimistic about the "one country, two
This book addresses the multifaceted dimensions of urban growth in the region and examines some of its consequences, implications and meanings. Regional and national analyses of urbanization trends, d
There are altogether thirteen papers in the book, under four major themes: urban and regional change, environmental pressures, transport and communication innovations, and demographic and labour force
Looks at functional characteristics and linkage effects of Pacific Asia's world cities against the background of global economic restructuring since the 1980s, examining cities as individual entities,
