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The Asian Megacity RegionScale and Where the Three Prongs Can Meet

The Asian Megacity Region: Scale and Where the Three Prongs Can Meet [The importance of scale in research and planning for the MCR in the developing world is no longer debatable. This is especially true in the current era of globalizationGlobalization and technological advances transforming traditional scalar hierarchies and creating multiple spatialities. The aspatial, network-based, representational, and discursive roles of scale are also becoming increasingly more consequential. I see scale as the third prong in a coherent tri-pronged approachTri-pronged approach to sustainable developmentSustainable developmentin the Asian MCRAsian megacity region, The that should be used in conjunction with the other two prongs, as discussed in the previous chapter. I recognize that scale remains a confounding concept, although a paradigmatic shift toward conceptual inclusivity by reconciling its many facets, seems to be taking place in the literature. In this chapter I offer an overview of this shift, followed by a brief look at the framework of the MCR from a bi-scalar perspective, and, given the need to recognize the diversities among (and within) the spaces in the MCR, conclude with one example of how elements of the three prongs can converge into a coherent approach for sustainable planning.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Asian Megacity RegionScale and Where the Three Prongs Can Meet

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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
ISBN
978-3-030-42648-4
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123 –148
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-42649-1_5
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Abstract

[The importance of scale in research and planning for the MCR in the developing world is no longer debatable. This is especially true in the current era of globalizationGlobalization and technological advances transforming traditional scalar hierarchies and creating multiple spatialities. The aspatial, network-based, representational, and discursive roles of scale are also becoming increasingly more consequential. I see scale as the third prong in a coherent tri-pronged approachTri-pronged approach to sustainable developmentSustainable developmentin the Asian MCRAsian megacity region, The that should be used in conjunction with the other two prongs, as discussed in the previous chapter. I recognize that scale remains a confounding concept, although a paradigmatic shift toward conceptual inclusivity by reconciling its many facets, seems to be taking place in the literature. In this chapter I offer an overview of this shift, followed by a brief look at the framework of the MCR from a bi-scalar perspective, and, given the need to recognize the diversities among (and within) the spaces in the MCR, conclude with one example of how elements of the three prongs can converge into a coherent approach for sustainable planning.]

Published: Apr 12, 2020

Keywords: Scale concepts; Observational scale; Tri-pronged approach; MCR; Sustainability

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