Peri-Urbanization Essay

Peri-urbanisation in East Asia

According to Hudalah et al. (2007), the spatial transformation taking place in peri-urban areas has provided an emerging picture of the growth of many city regions in developing countries and more specifically, East Asia. In fact, peri-urbanisation, which implies development of mixed land uses outside designated city boundaries, is a newly emerging challenge for the planning of cities in this region.

McGee (1991) as cited by Hudalah et al. (2007), in his studies desakota (an Indonesian term for ‘rural-urban’ area), pointed out that there is an intensive coexistence of farming and non-farming activities within the metropolitan regions of many East Asian countries.

The term ‘ desakota’ according to Webster and Muller

The industrially driven industrialisation is a product of foreign direct investment is some countries (globalisation), also known as exo-urbanization and indigenous industrialization as in the case of South Korea while the known as second generation peri-urbanization was motivated by increase in domestic consumption and rapid growth of the middle and high income class and development of new airports in many East Asian

Even in the case of low growth rate, many large Latin American cities were characterized by significant peri-urban expansion. He further opined that the dynamics that determined peri-urbanization in Latin America were quite complex, and involved a number of facets; from land regulation and taxation to infrastructure and housing policies. Private companies also play a significant role in the scenario, since they influence both the price of housing space and that of land. As a consequence, people settle farther away from the urban centre even when vacant areas still exist in more affluent parts of the