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The Asian Megacity RegionConcluding Thoughts

The Asian Megacity Region: Concluding Thoughts [The rise of megacities and the rural-urban hybridity of their evolving city regions, within spaces of fragmented and overlapping governing and administrative systems, have been hallmarks of Asian urbanization. The primary focus of this volume has been to draw attention to this scalar entity and urbanizing phenomenon—the Asian MCR—while stressing the need for an interconnected approach to its urban-rural domain for sustainable research and planning. It has been my contention that the three facets of my approach, simultaneously applied, and contextually adapted, will have the potential to forge a viable path toward sustainable development of the Asian MCR. In this concluding chapter, I revisit this position, and note elements of my empirical study of NCR, Delhi that support the call for sub-scalar examination of city-regional spreads for localized strengths and needs, representing varied urban-rural attributes, linkages, flows, functions, and processes for informed developmental planning. I make brief comments on governance and data issues, two of the themes that arose in the course of this work. And finally, I share my vision for a synergy between research, planning (including governance and jurisdiction), and discursive realms: a perpetual cyclical relationship of process and outcome, shaping and being shaped by elements inherent to each realm as well as to the central concept of sustainable development of the MCR through time and space.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Asian Megacity RegionConcluding Thoughts

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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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203 –221
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-42649-1_7
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Abstract

[The rise of megacities and the rural-urban hybridity of their evolving city regions, within spaces of fragmented and overlapping governing and administrative systems, have been hallmarks of Asian urbanization. The primary focus of this volume has been to draw attention to this scalar entity and urbanizing phenomenon—the Asian MCR—while stressing the need for an interconnected approach to its urban-rural domain for sustainable research and planning. It has been my contention that the three facets of my approach, simultaneously applied, and contextually adapted, will have the potential to forge a viable path toward sustainable development of the Asian MCR. In this concluding chapter, I revisit this position, and note elements of my empirical study of NCR, Delhi that support the call for sub-scalar examination of city-regional spreads for localized strengths and needs, representing varied urban-rural attributes, linkages, flows, functions, and processes for informed developmental planning. I make brief comments on governance and data issues, two of the themes that arose in the course of this work. And finally, I share my vision for a synergy between research, planning (including governance and jurisdiction), and discursive realms: a perpetual cyclical relationship of process and outcome, shaping and being shaped by elements inherent to each realm as well as to the central concept of sustainable development of the MCR through time and space.]

Published: Apr 12, 2020

Keywords: Asian megacity region; Urban-rural interface; Sub-scalar spaces; Governance; Data issues; Future vision

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