Building liveable cities in Asia in the twenty-first century research and policy challenges for the urban future of Asia

• Main Author: T. G. Mc Gee
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Management Society, Malaysia 2010
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2294/1/Article3_McGee.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2294/; http://www.ems-malaysia.org/mjem/index.html
• Institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

This article focuses on the central question of what kind of urban places need to be developed in Asia to satisfy the requirements of sustainability and livability over the next fifty years. The paper argues that the fact that Asia which contains almost 60 per cent of the world’s population and...