Analyzing Urban Planning Strategies to Mitigate Everchanging Characteristics of Future Asian Cities

Analyzing Urban Planning Strategies to Mitigate Everchanging Characteristics of Future Asian Cities

Chintan D. Patel¹

¹Chintan D. Patel, Associate Professor, Parul Institute of Architecture & Research, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Parul University

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Abstract - Even though the time duration of the Industrial revolution – transition to the mass manufacturing process is said to be between 1760 to 1840 in Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, Asian countries joined the race very late but developed very rapidly to match the pace of growing industrialization demand of the recent times. As more and more countries are rising as emerging economic centers and so as a result global economy is rising, it tries to integrate the economy and cities within the country in need of human resources (manpower) for better production. Subsequently, cities in Asian countries have observed mass migration from rural areas to urban areas for availing of better services, economic gain, and infrastructure facilities at an unprecedented speed. This paper tries to understand such challenges of the everchanging characteristics of today’s growing cities of Asian and Pacific sub-regions and assesses unique city planning strategies through various approaches and examples.

Key Words:  Cities in the global context, Sustainable Cities, Urban Policy, Planning and Design, Urban Agglomeration, Peri-Urbanization