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THE
ASIAN CONFERENCE ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN MEDIUM-SIZED
CITIES
DECLARATION OF THE ASIAN
CONFERENCE ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
- Background
- Plenary Session: Substantive issues
- Report of Committee I
- Definitions
- Characteristic Problems
- Optima and Maxima
- The Impact of Time
- Policies
- Report of Committee II
- Definitions
- Dynamics, Data, and Policy
- Importance of Medium-Sized Cities
CHAPTER 2 OVERVIEW URBANIZATION
TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENT
Toshio Kuroda
- Urbanization Problems as a World-Wide Concern
- Revolution of Urbanization: A World-Wide Concern
- Lack of General Theory
- Burden or Blessing?
- Objectives and Background
- Urbanization Process and Change: The Japanese
Experience
- Stages of Urbanization in Modern Japan
- Population Concentration and Deconcentration:
Reverse to Re-reverese
- Reviving Indications of Urbanization
- Urban Hierarchy and Medium-sized Cities
CHAPTER 3 POPULATION DYNAMICS
OF MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES
Prem P. Talwar
- Introduction
- Role of Medium-Sized Cities
- Linking Rural Hinterlands with Cities
- Permitting Efficient Use of Resources
- Bringing Equitable Distribution of Facilities and
Services
- Reducing Problems of Over-Concentration of
Population
- Population Dynamics of Medium-Sized Cities
- Change in Per Cent Urban Population in Asia
- Change in Number of Cities in Different Size
Categories in Asia
- Large and Medium-Sized Cities in India, 1981
- Decadal Population Growth of Medium-Sized Cities in
India
- Comparison of Decadal Population Growth of
Medium-Sized Cities with Larger Cities
- Other Population Characteristics
- Population Profiles of Medium-Sized Cities
- Natural Increase in Population
- Age Distribution
- Dependency Ratios
- Sex Distribution
- Literacy Status
- Economic Activity
- Policy Implications
Note: Relative advantages of Investment in
Health and Family Planning in Medium- and Large-Sized Cities.
- Current Situation
- Need to Change the Situation
- Recommendations
Reference
CHAPTER 4 SOCIO-ECONOMIC
IMPLICATIONS OF URBAN STRUCTUAL CHANGE
Lin Lean Lim
- Introduction
- Urban Structure and Change in Asia
- Components of Urban Structural Change
- Urban Structural Change and Regional Spatial
Transformation
- Implications of Urban Structual Change
- The Roles and Functions of Different Size Cities
- Urban Structural Change and Economic and Social
Development
- Some Policy Implications
References
CHAPTER 5 POLICY AND PLANNING
FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES
Won Bae Kim
- Metropolitan Growth: A Prominent Feature in Asian
Urbanization
- Countering Metropolitan Growth
- Policies at the Inter-Regional Level
- Controlling Metropolitan Growth at the
Inter-Regional scale
- Alternative to Metropolitan Growth
- Definition of Medium-Sized Cities
- Roles of Medium-SIzed Cities
- Typology of Medium-Sized Cities
- Characteristics of Medium-Sized Cities
- Policies and Planning for Medium-Sized Cities
- The Republic of Korean Example: Past Policies
- Recent Plans
- Indonesia
- Planning at the Regional and Local Level
References
CHAPTER 6 CHINA'S MEDIUM-SIZED
CITIES IN THE URBAN HIERARCHY AND IN THE NATIONAL
POLITICAL-ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE
Xie Wenhui
- Definitions: The Meaning of Medium-Sized Cities in
China
- Position of the Medium-Sized Cities Population in
China's Urban Hierarchy
Classification of the size grades in China's
urban hierarchy
- Regional urban hierarchy at the national level
- Urban hierarchy at the provincial level
- Urban hierarchy at the prefectural level
- Urban hierarchy at the county level
Categories of the urban hierarchy in China
- Comprehensive urban hierarchy
- Mining industry urban hierarchy
- Port urban hierarchy
The distribution of the urban hierarchy in China
- The Role Played by Medium-Sized Cities in Developing
the National Economy of China
- The main economic index of the medium-sized cities
- The superiority of the medium-sized cities in
organizing economic activities and developing production
APPENDIX I: LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
- National Delegation
- Observers
- United Nations
- Non-Governmental Organizations
- Secretariat
- UNFPA
- City of Kobe
- Resource Persons
APPENDIX II: CHAPTER AUTHORS
AND LIST OF PARTICIPANTS PAPERS
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