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Political Science City Planning & Urban Development

Asia Pacific

New Geographies of the Pacific Rim

by (author) R.F. Watters & T.G. McGee

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 1997
Category
City Planning & Urban Development
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774806466
    Publish Date
    Nov 1997
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774806473
    Publish Date
    Nov 1997
    List Price
    $31.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774854931
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $99.00

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The great processes reshaping our world today can be summed up by the term "globalisation". Together with the communications revolution and massive urbanisation, it is reshaping theorganisation of global space. It is illustrated by technological change, pronounced economic growth, the dominance of giant corporations, ever more open markets and universal consumption. Dramatic developments have occurred in Asia-Pacific trade, investment, labour movements and political cooperation, marked for example by APEC, a giant free-trade area designed to encompass about 60% of the world's population and half the world's economy.

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Contributor Notes

T.G. McGee (editor) is Director, Institute of Asian Research, and Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia. He has carried out extensive research on urbanisation in Asia over the last 40 years. He is the author of The Southeast Asian City (1967), Third World Urbanization (1971), and together with Warwick Armstrong Theatres of Accumulation (1985). More recently, he has co-edited the Extended Metropolis in Asia (1991) and Mega-Urban Regions in Southeast Asia (1995). Ray Watters (editor) was Professor of Geography, Victoria University of Wellington, and specialised in development and social change in peasant and tribal societies in Latin America and the South Pacific. He recently worked in Guizhou, southwest China. Among his books are Poverty and Peasantry in the Peruvian Andes (1994), Shifting Cultivation in Latin America (1971) and Abemama: Social Change in Kiribati and Tuvalu (1983).