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The Asian Megacity RegionAsian MCR: Urban-Rural Interface and Multidimensionality of the Spread Region

The Asian Megacity Region: Asian MCR: Urban-Rural Interface and Multidimensionality of the Spread... [The profound socioeconomic and environmental repercussions of the growing Asian megacities on the rural, semi-urban, and urbanizing territories around them have stoked academic, political, planning, public, and other interests to pursue sustainable developmentSustainable development strategies for the megacity regions of Asia. However, as yet, we do not know whether there are some principal characteristics unique to the Asian MCR, and strategy formulation is made difficult by non-standardized definitions of ‘urban’, a lingering city-centric outlook, and complex rural-urban dynamics involving flows, linkages, and interfaces in the hybrid, changing, and spatially uneven ‘spread regionMegacity regionsspread region’ within the MCRs. Additionally, conceptual contrasts and differing approaches to sustainability, such as green and brown agendasGreen and brown agendas, have also impeded the success of such pursuits. Here, I present the first two prongs of my tri-pronged approachTri-pronged approach to sustainable development issues in context of the Asian MCR: (1) the urban-rural interface (URI) as place, process, and concept manifests in the spread region, and (2) the multidimensional lens. I discuss some of the conceptual shifts evident in the literature, from the rural-urban divide to rural-urban and peri-urban interfacesPeri-urban interface (PUI), and from primarily economistic to multidimensionalSustainabilitymultidimensional approaches to sustainable development. I offer a working definition of the ‘spread region’ of the MCR from the standpoint of the urban-rural interfaceUrban-ruralinterface that characterizes this space. And finally, I advocate the implementation of a coherent, ‘color-coordinated’ and multidimensional approach to examining the uneven spacesMega[city]-regional spacesspaces within of the URI within the spread region at disaggregated scales for effective planning and research purposes.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Asian Megacity RegionAsian MCR: Urban-Rural Interface and Multidimensionality of the Spread Region

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Mookherjee, Debnath
The Asian Megacity Region — Apr 12, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-42648-4
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73 –121
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10.1007/978-3-030-42649-1_4
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Abstract

[The profound socioeconomic and environmental repercussions of the growing Asian megacities on the rural, semi-urban, and urbanizing territories around them have stoked academic, political, planning, public, and other interests to pursue sustainable developmentSustainable development strategies for the megacity regions of Asia. However, as yet, we do not know whether there are some principal characteristics unique to the Asian MCR, and strategy formulation is made difficult by non-standardized definitions of ‘urban’, a lingering city-centric outlook, and complex rural-urban dynamics involving flows, linkages, and interfaces in the hybrid, changing, and spatially uneven ‘spread regionMegacity regionsspread region’ within the MCRs. Additionally, conceptual contrasts and differing approaches to sustainability, such as green and brown agendasGreen and brown agendas, have also impeded the success of such pursuits. Here, I present the first two prongs of my tri-pronged approachTri-pronged approach to sustainable development issues in context of the Asian MCR: (1) the urban-rural interface (URI) as place, process, and concept manifests in the spread region, and (2) the multidimensional lens. I discuss some of the conceptual shifts evident in the literature, from the rural-urban divide to rural-urban and peri-urban interfacesPeri-urban interface (PUI), and from primarily economistic to multidimensionalSustainabilitymultidimensional approaches to sustainable development. I offer a working definition of the ‘spread region’ of the MCR from the standpoint of the urban-rural interfaceUrban-ruralinterface that characterizes this space. And finally, I advocate the implementation of a coherent, ‘color-coordinated’ and multidimensional approach to examining the uneven spacesMega[city]-regional spacesspaces within of the URI within the spread region at disaggregated scales for effective planning and research purposes.]

Published: Apr 12, 2020

Keywords: The Asian megacity region (MCR); Megaregion; Urban-rural interface; Tri-pronged approach; Peri-urban interface; Spread region; Sustainability; Green and brown agendas

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