pt. 1. Introduction: Creating place for the displaced : migration and urbanization in Asia / Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Ravi Kanbur -- pt. 2. Globalization and urbanization: Globalization and exclusionary urban growth in Asian countries / Amitabh Kundu and Debolina Kundu ; ICT sector, globalization and urban economic growth : Evidence from Bangalore / M. R. Narayana ; Place and identity on the borderland between old and new in Shanghai : a case study / Deljana Iossifova -- pt. 3. Migration and urbanization: Globalizing Shanghai : international migration and the global city / Wei Shen ; Globalizing households and multi-ethnic community building in Japan / Chihiro Ishii ; Foundations of minority communities : resident Koreans in Japan / David Rands -- pt. 4. Governance and urbanization: High stakes, high leverage : the case for efficient urban form in China / Douglas Webster, Alain Bertaud, Jianming Cai, and Zhenshan Yang ; Fiscal decentralization and urbanization in Indonesia / Margherita Comola and Luiz de Mello ; Moderating urbanization and managing growth : how can Colombo prevent the emerging chaos? / Ranjith Dayaratne -- pt. 5. Women in urban settings: Women and landed property in urban India : negotiating closed doors and windows of opportunity / Bipasha Baruah ; Urbanization and the South Asian enigma : a case study of India / Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and K. S. James -- pt. 6. Infrastructure in urban peripheries: Why do peri-urban households invest in improved, piped water? : a case study from Can Tho, Vietnam / James H. Spencer ; The excluded poor : how targeting has left out the poor in peripheral cities in the Philippines / Michael P. Canares.

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