Abstract
The favorite topics of past research on Asian city often involved “over-urbanization” and poverty in the city. While these topics are still important, the economic development in the past decades substantially changed the urban scene. Urban economic activities are thriving, and urban ways of life have become westernized to a great deal. Suburban development is currently underway, resulting in the development of megalopolis. A recent increase of the immigrant population in Asian cities is diversifying the ethnic portfolio of the city. Interests in the development of new urban cultural identity are growing in the hope of achieving the competitiveness in the globalizing world.
