As an effect of climate change, cities need detailed information on urban climates at decision
scale that cannot be easily delivered using current observation networks, nor global and …

In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a
reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from …

Village settlements in peri-urban areas have largely been transformed into dense
neighbourhoods in the process of rapid urbanisation and become Villages-in-the-City …

Housing commodification has led to the development of gated neighbourhoods in China.
However, the types of gated neighbourhoods are very different from each other, and include …

Sustainable integration of rural settlements into metropolises is one of the most challenging
issues in the Global South. Due to rapid urbanisation, various villages, which often have …

Suburbanization is the process of decentralization whereby urban dwellers no longer only
prefer to settle in the urban centre but also to its surrounding suburban districts. With the …

Confrontées à des phénomènes d'étalement urbain de plus en plus marqués, les villes
asiatiques en développement contrôlent difficilement leur urbanisation. Alors que Hanoi, la …

Abstract Whereas citizenship in Southeast Asia is often perceived as a “cluster of absences”,
this chapter discusses citizenship in Vietnam starting with everyday practices of state-society …

As in many other areas around the globe, enclosed residential spaces have proliferated in
Southeast Asia since the 1990s. Recent publications have presented such gated …

City. In the first section, we contextualize the urban transition in Vietnam and offer a brief
background review of the two cities in order to highlight their diverse historical, cultural, and …