An overdue Agenda: Systematizing East Asian peri-urban research

Pacific Affairs

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 631-642

  Webster, Douglas ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

East Asia; Land use; Peri urban; Rural transition; Urban periphery; Urban transition

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC STRUCTURE; LAND USE CHANGE; PERIURBAN AREA; PERIURBANIZATION; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84865879838     PISSN: 0030851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5509/2011844631     Document Type: Review

References (47)

1. Douglas Webster is Professor in the Schools of Politics and Global Studies, Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, and Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA. He can be reached at douglas. webster@asu. edu.
2. John Friedmann, "Introduction: Becoming Urban: Periurban Dynamics in Vietnam and China, " Pacific Affairs 84, no. 3 (2011): 425-34.
3. Douglas Webster, "On the Edge: Shaping the Future of Peri-Urban East Asia, " Discussion Paper (Stanford: Asia-Pacific Research Centre, 2002).
4. Webster, "On the Edge: Shaping the Future of Peri-Urban East Asia, " 5.
5. The desakota concept predated the conceptualization of peri-urbanization around the turn of the twenty-first century. The concept overlaps with peri-urbanization, but is conceptually somewhat different. This is in part because McGee formulated this concept before large-scale manufacturing took off in East Asia, driving what we now term peri-urbanization. Peri-urbanization has tended to be driven by large-scale point-based (industrial zones) investment in agriculture (although this is changing) and thus was often expressed in more polycentric urbanization patterns than desakota processes, which tend to follow more traditional urban settlement patterns and transportation corridors.
6. Key works from these authors include: George C.S. Lin, Metropolitan Development in a Transitional Socialist Economy: Spatial Restructuring in the Pearl River Delta, China, " Urban Studies 38, no. 3 (2001): 383-406.
7. Pengjun Zhao, Bin Lu and Johan Woltjer, "Conflicts in the Urban Fringe in the Transformation Era: An Examination of Performance of the Metropolitan Growth Management in Beijing, " Habitat International 33, no. 4 (2009): 347-56.
8. Tommy Firman, "Land Conversion and Urban Development in the Northern Region of West Java, Indonesia, " Urban Studies 34, no. 7 (2001): 1027-46.
9. Haryo Winsaro, "Urban Dualism in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area, " in Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability, eds. Andre Sorensen and Junichiro Okata (Tokyo: Springer, 2010).
10. and Jianming Cai and Victor F.S. Sit, "Measuring World City Formation: The Case of Shanghai, " The Annals of Regional Science 37, no. 3 (2003): 435-46.
11. Development Planning Unit, University of London, for more information, visit http://www. ucl.ac.uk/dpu/, accessed 17 Oct 2011
12. See Duncan McGregor, David Simon and Donald Thomson, eds., The Peri-Urban Interface: Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use (London: Earthscan, 2006).
13. Michael Leaf, "A Tale of Two Villages: Globalization and Peri-Urban Change in China and Vietnam, " Cities 19, no. 1 (2002): 23-31.
14. Erik Harms, "Material Symbolism on Saigon's Edge: The Political-Economic and Symbolic Transformation of Ho Chi Minh City's Periurban Zones, " Pacific Affairs 84, no. 3 (2011): 455-74.
15. Danielle Labbé, "Urban Destruction and Land Disputes in Periurban Hanoi During the Late-Socialist Period, " Pacific Affairs 84, no. 3 (2011): 435-54.
16. and Leslie Shieh, "Becoming Urban: Rural-Urban Integration in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, " Pacific Affairs 84, no. 3 (2011): 475-94.
17. Annemarie Schneider, Karen C. Seto and Douglas R. Webster, "Urban Growth in Chengdu, Western China: Application of Remote Sensing to Assess Planning and Policy Outcomes, " Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 32, no. 3 (2005): 323-45.
18. and Anthony Garon Yeh and Xia Li, "An Integrated Remote Sensing and GIS Approach in the Monitoring and Evaluation of Rapid Urban Growth for Sustainable Development in the Pearl River Delta, China, " International Planning Studies 2, no. 2 (1997): 195-222.
19. National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China, The Eleventh Five Year Plan, Beijing, China.
20. Shlomo Angel, Stephen C. Sheppard and Daniel L. Civco, The Dynamics of Global Urban Expansion (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2005).
21. The Spatial Growth of Metropolitan Cities in China: Issues and Options for Urban Land Use, (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2008).
22. Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai and Zhenshan Yang, Toward Efficient Urban Form in China, United Nations University Working Paper No. 2010/97 (Tokyo: United Nations University/World Institute for Development and Economic Research, 2010).
23. Webster et al., Transformation in Beijing Metropolis: Implications for Land Use Efficiency, 22.
24. Source of 2005 density: Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, 2006 Beijing Statistical Yearbook, Beijing, China.
25. Daniel Benjamin Abramson and Yu Qi, "Urban-rural Integration: in the Earthquake Zone: Sichuan's Post-Disaster Reconstruction and the Expansion of the Chengdu Metropole, " Pacific Affairs 84, no. 3 (2011): 495-524.
26. Tsu-Lung Chou and Jung-Ying Chang, "Urban Sprawl and the Politics of Land Use Planning in Urban Taiwan, " International Development Planning Review 30, no. 1 (2008): 67-92.
27. Peri-urban new urban settlement may leap-frog and thus exhibit low regional densities, but actually urban development (at the site, built-up level), tends to be high. David Dowell made this observation in his case study of land development on the fringes of Bangkok.
28. see David E. Dowall, "A Second Look at the Bangkok Land and Housing Market, " Urban Studies 29, no. 1 (1992): 25-37.
29. In this regard, see the work of Logan and Molotch.
30. John R. Logan and Harvey Molotch, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Places (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), 32.
31. John Thayer Sidel, Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
32. Chutathip Maneepong and Douglas Webster, "Governance Responses to Emerging Peri-Urbanisation Issues at the Global-Local Nexus: The Case of Ayutthaya, Thailand, " International Development Planning Review 30, no. 2 (2008): 133-54.
33. Delik Hudalah, Haryo Winsaro and Johan Woltjer, "Planning by Opportunity: An analysis of Periurban Environmental Conflicts in Indonesia, " Environment and Planning A 42, no. 9 (2010): 2254-69.
34. Delik Hudalah, "Peri-Urban Planning in Indonesia: Contexts, Approaches, and Institutional Capacity, " (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Gronnigen, 2010).
35. Kate J. Neville, "Adversaries versus Partners: Urban Water Supply in the Philippines, " Pacific Affairs 84, no. 2 (2011): 245-265.
36. Shieh, "Becoming Urban: Rural-Urban Integration in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, " 476.
37. Non-contiguity is exhibited by the fact that urban districts often jump across space to include outlying economic zones or airports, as in the case of Ningbo's ETDZ or Beijing's Capital Airport, the latter a non-contiguous extension of Chaoyang District.
38. Webster et al., Urban Transformation in Beijing Metropolis: Implications for Land Use Efficiency, 91-92, see https://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/, accessed 17 Oct 2011.
39. Pengjun Zhao, "Too Complex to be Managed? New Trends in Peri-Urbanisation and its Planning in Beijing, " Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, forthcoming
40. The Economist, "A Special Report on China: Rising Power, Anxious State, " 25 June 2011.
41. Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima, "Creative Industries in East Asia, " Cities 22, no. 2 (2005): 109-22.
42. Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, 2001-2010 Beijing Statistical Yearbooka, Beijing, China.
43. Webster et al., Urban Transformation in Beijing Metropolis: Implications for Land Use Efficiency, 76-88.
44. Douglas Webster, Supporting Sustainable Development in Thailand: A Geographic Clusters Approach, " (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2006).
45. Daniel Benjamin Abramson and Yu Qi, "Urban-rural Integration: in the Earthquake Zone: Sichuan's Post-Disaster Reconstruction and the Expansion of the Chengdu Metropole, " Pacific Affairs 84, no. 3 (2011): 495-524.
46. Douglas Webster, Larissa Muller and Jianming Cai, "The Emerging Cultural Economy in Chinese Cities: Early Dynamics, " International Development Planning Review 33, no. 3 (2011): 343-69.
47. For example, the Lincoln Policy Institute's funding of world-wide comparison of global cities in the mid-1990s could serve as a model. This effort resulted in: Roger Simmonds and Gary Hack, eds., Global City Regions (London: Routledge, 2000).