Asian urban sustainability in the era of globalization

摘要: Abstract The process of achieving urban sustainable development is uncharted. We only know that plans should address the economic, environmental and social health city this task can be accomplished by approaching each these issues at different scales. For rapidly developing world cities, “sustainability” becoming an increasingly elusive objective, in part, because impacts forces beyond their borders. Using Asia-Pacific region as a case study, framework relates regional transnational flows to state environment conditions linked cities. “functional system” within both engine growth force behind differentiating issues. At same time, while globalization have been particularly strong cities Asia-Pacific, local factors also play crucial role development. Globalization driven has not translated into single path development, rather localities demonstrated contextually specific paths.