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Mega Cities
Mega Challenge

Informal Dynamics of Global Change
Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China

Ed.: Frauke Kraas; Kirsten Hackenbroch; Harald Sterly; Jost Heintzenberg; Peter Herrle; Volker Kreibich

2019. 227 pages, 43 figures, 17x24cm, 880 g
Language: English

ISBN 978-3-443-01103-1, bound, price: 29.90 €

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Keywords

megacities • urban transformation • urban process • globalisation • global change

Contents

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Megacities are gaining importance as hubs of globalisation processes in a world increasingly dominated by cities. A deeper understanding of the multiple causes and drivers of their development is needed in order to shape the global urban transformation towards sustainability.
The interdisciplinary research programme “Megacities – Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change” aimed at understanding the connections between informal mega-urban processes and global change by investigating the situation in the two mega-urban areas of the Pearl River Delta/China and Dhaka/Bangladesh. The research focused on processes and interactions in four fields with high development dynamics and social relevance: new forms of governance and self-organisation, differentiation of urban economies, dynamics of matter and resource flows, and informal settlement development.

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Acknowledgements 11
1 Introduction
Introduction to the SPP 14
2 Megacities
2.1 Global Megacity Dynamics 24
2.2 Dhaka: A Rapidly Expanding and Economically Dynamic Agglomeration 40
2.3 The Pearl River Delta: a Poly-Nodal Mega-Urban Region 52
3 Research
3.1 Governance Processes 66
3.2 Migration and Migrants in the City 80
3.3 Rising Economies 96
3.4 Megaurban Risks and Vulnerabilities 112
3.5 Public Health and Urban Environments 126
3.6 Global Change 142
3.7 Informality 148
4 Pathways
4.1 Coordinating the Research Programme 160
4.2 Research Partners 164
4.3 Methodological Challenges 170
4.4 Interdisciplinarity 174
5 Reflections and Outlook
5.1 Objectives and Outcomes of the Research Programme 180
5.2 Reflections on the Research Process 182
5.3 Reflections on the Science-Practice/ Policy Interface 186
5.4 Outlook 190
6 Follow up
6.1 References 198
6.2 List of Members 220
6.3 Editors and Authors 224