Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia (UNU, 1996, 528 pages): Part 1. Global - Asia - Pacific functional linkages: Global restructuring and emerging urban corridors in Pacific Asia: Notes

Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia (UNU, 1996, 528 pages)

Part 1. Global - Asia - Pacific functional linkages

Global restructuring and emerging urban corridors in Pacific Asia

		(introductory text...)
		Introduction
		Global restructuring and uneven growth
		A new Asia-Pacific economic interdependence
		Emerging Pacific-Asia urban corridors and formulation of the functional city system
		Towards the twenty-first century
		Notes
		References

Notes

1. The World Bank, the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), among others, have supported studies on urban management and service provision issues. The United Nations Population Division has supported a series of individual city studies.

2. Japanese scholars first initiated studies of the "flying geese" in the 1930s, with Yamazawa's volume as the latest in this tradition. Interestingly, an independent but parallel explanation of the same phenomenon was propounded by Vernon (1966).

3. See also product life cycle theory (Vernon, 1966) and Akamatsu-Yamazawa's flying-geese theory (Yamazawa, 1990).