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Author Silver, Christopher, 1951-

Title Planning the megacity : Jakarta in the twentieth century / Christopher Silver
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Planning, history and the environment series
Planning, history, and the environment series.
Contents Understanding urbanization and the megacity in Southeast Asia -- Fashioning the colonial capital city, 1900-1940 -- Plans for the modern metropolis, 1950-1970s -- Planning for housing, neighbourhoods and urban revitalization -- Expansion, revitalization and the restructuring of metropolitan Jakarta, the 1970s to the early 1990s -- Urban village to world city : re-planning Jakarta in the 1990s -- Planning in the new democratic megacity
Summary Expert Christopher Silver shows how Jakarta was transformed from a colonial capital into a megacity of well over 10 million inhabitants
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Metropolitan areas -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Planning
Metropolitan areas -- Planning.
SUBJECT Jakarta (Indonesia) -- History
Subject Indonesia -- Jakarta.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780415701648
0415701643