The title Urban Development in Asia...(Asia’s cities will house an estimated 2.2 billion by 2020.
Can the region’s economic growth continue without a sustainable plan for its mega cities ) covers the aspects like:
- The Upside of Slums in Development
- Thailand’s Mr. Condom Works Between the Navel and the Knees
- Viet Nam Tries to Break the Mold
- Revamping old Asia
- Moreover, image to the right is complete summary of the edition.
An Overview with Perspective of Increasing population & Urban Poverty in Mega cities of Asia
The world has entered the urban millennium. nearly half of the world's people are now city dwellers and rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is further prompted by powerful forces of globalization and technological innovation.
The different approaches to give a green effect to urbanization process will be discussed in this blog. when the word urbanization comes, Asia is the most striking place where we can find it in its pure and progressive form.
Vietnamese got lot of benefits by urbanization which helped in growing their economic graph and getting employment. China's perspective of taking rural farmers and locating them to urban areas facilitating to build up the High Rise Structures is an optimistic program of vast urbanization.
Urban poor has been observed a great percentage of increase in Nigeria, Philippines, Pakistan , India etc. blaming the urban poor for current dilemma of malfunctioning of mega cities is not the solution. we cannot even blame the urban poor as its a human nature to keep attracted towards the circle of opportunity and this is what big cities (with handsome scope of employment and development) offering them.
"World Bank" point of view can be interpreted in the way that its possible to control the environment if basic facilities are provided based on the calculation of population.
Migrating of rural people is also the thirst of urban areas for rapid development as migrants at times play positive role in benefiting them rather than hurting developed areas. Asian Cities are going to house about 2.2 billion people by 2020. so the question is can regional economic growth continued to maintain without sustainable plan for mega cities.
According to UN-Habitat: 47% of pakistan, 41% of veitnames and 32.8% of chinese lived in urban slums in 2005. and now this is making the situation more difficult as land development sectors have increased the property prices because of its high demand. this inflation of property has forced people to live in slums. Mumbai (India) land prices are so high that its even difficult for middle class to find anything other than slums.
Mr Acioly (UN-Habitat) put light on role played by NGO in Asia. According to him: "NGO play an operational role in urban development rather than being part of decision making process. Even individual or community based participation is lacking in Asia- in contrast to Latin America where practice is common."
Cities are a more attractive place to find employment, regardless of all problems."
Emiel Wegelin, Prog Coordinator
Our world is changing, and its changing very fast. The urbanization and globalization is non reversible process as people are always going to contribute in it to achieve the goals like a good house, nice job and a car. Going green is the new defense policy to achieve sustainable environment in mega cities specially where there is less use of energy and more production of energy, transportation system with good urban planning.
One very important aspect is above all of the discussed remedies and it is the good Governance policy. Governance or a check keep things aligned and going in the right direction. When it comes to urbanizing policies, then it becomes compulsory to maintain the existing sources rather than planting modern bodies of planning. Unless a precise and honest governing authority not formalized, the implementation of the urban planing projects is out of question.
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