Peri-Urban Planning for Developing East Asia: Learning from Chengdu, China and Yogyakarta/Kartamantul, Indonesia

ABSTRACT:

More than one hundred million people will settle in the peri-urban areas surrounding the urban areas of city regions in the developing countries of East Asia in the next decade. These areas are the epicenter of world urbanization where the greatest opportunities and most pressing problems coexist. Yet no East Asian city-region has a peri-urban plan. This article describes the nature of East Asian peri-urban areas and the peri-urbanization process occurring there today. It describes typical sites in peri-urban areas requiring remediation and which present potential problems and opportunities in the future. Drawing on the authors’ research in Chengdu, China and the Yogyakarta/Kartamantul region of Indonesia, the article describes how innovative decision-making and governance and coordinated regional plans and policies can remediate and prevent problems and capitalize on opportunities in peri-urban areas.

New peri-urban village, Chengdu, China, (2013).

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China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Timor-Leste, and Brunei Darussalam (UNPD, ).

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Richard Legates

Richard LeGates is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at San Francisco State University and a Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at Tongji University (Shanghai). He is the co-author of Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China: Learning from Chengdu (2013) and co-editor of The City Reader, 5th Edition (2011), The Chinese City Reader (2013), and the Routledge urban reader series. In 2012 he visited Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. From 2011 to 2013 he was co–principal investigator in a study of Chengdu’s coordinated urban and rural development policies. He has also taught at the University of California Berkeley, Stanford University, Charles University (Prague), Renmin University (Beijing), and the American University of Sharjah (UAE).

Delik Hudalah

Delik Hudalah is a Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). He holds a PhD in Planning (2010) and was a postdoctoral research fellow (2012) at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. His interests are on the interfaces between urban and rural change, socioeconomic development, and environmental protection, and between global forces and local knowledge in the production of edge urban spaces. He has participated in research projects on peri-urban environmental planning and metropolitan cooperation in Indonesia, and post-suburbanization and industrial deconcentration in Greater Jakarta, He has served as a consultant to the Indonesian national government, international donor institutions and NGOs, and provincial and local governments. His research has been published in Planning Theory, Urban Geography, Environment and Planning A, Cities, International Development Planning Review, and International Planning Studies.