Residential Differentiation in Yangon Metropolitan Area on the 2014 Population and Housing Census

Abstract

As for the urbanization of the Southeast Asia since the 1990s, the concept of extended mega region and new middle class has been presented through studies on Jakarta and Bangkok metropolitan regions. Whether the growth of Yangon following the transformation from socialist economy to market economy in 1988 shows a similar trend or not is an interesting agenda. The expansion of the urbanized area of Yangon was still being primarily limited to within the Yangon City boundary, so its spread can’t be said to have reached to the level equivalent to that of an extended metropolitan region.