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Mega-urban Regions and World City Formation: Globalisation, the Economic Crisis and Urban Policy Issues in Pacific Asia

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  • Mike Douglass

    (Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816, USA, michaeld@hawaii.edu)

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In Pacific Asia, the globalisation of trade, production and finance underlies an accelerated urban transition focusing on a limited number of mega-urban regions. Intercity competition for world city status among these regions has intensified following the 1997 economic crisis. With governments compelled to devote greater amounts of public resources to creating a built environment to host global investment, a number of key policy issues are emerging. These include demands for inclusive governance and more livable cities; the appearance of new forms of urban poverty; low economic resilience in the face of growing global economic turbulence and the spatial unevenness of global economic growth. With the rise of civil society as a political force, addressing these issues calls for a sharper focus on cities not simply as economic agglomerations or collectivities of consumers in the world market, but also as arenas for the formation of political communities.

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  • Mike Douglass, 2000. "Mega-urban Regions and World City Formation: Globalisation, the Economic Crisis and Urban Policy Issues in Pacific Asia," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 37(12), pages 2315-2335, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:37:y:2000:i:12:p:2315-2335
    DOI: 10.1080/00420980020002823
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