This book provides a systematic and multifaceted overview of urban wellbeing. It explores the characteristics and complexities of urban wellbeing of lower and middle classes in Asian megacities.
This book provides a systematic and multifaceted overview of urban wellbeing. It explores the characteristics and complexities of urban wellbeing of lower and middle classes in Asian megacities.
Tamaki Endo is Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Saitama University. Her research interests include informal economy, urban development, inequality and global value chain. She received her PhD in Economics (2007) from Kyoto University. Main publications are Living with Risks: Precarity & Bangkok's Urban Poor (NUS Press association with Kyoto University Press, 2014), Goto, Endo and Ito [eds], The Asian Economy: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Routledge, 2020). Momoyo Shibuya is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University. She received her PhD from Macquarie University on ethnic relations of the Japanese transnational community in a social contextual shift. After completing her degree, she worked as a researcher in the media industry and at think tanks before joining Saitama University. Her research interests include ethnic networks and soft power contributing one chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Soft Power (2nd ed., forthcoming).
Inhaltsangabe
1.Urban Risk and Well-Being in Asian Megacities 2. Megacities matter: Socioeconomic dynamics and subjective well-being in three megacities 3. Asian Megacity Survey on Well-Being 4. Understanding urban well-being from a historical perspective 5. Perceived and Experienced Urban Risks and Life Difficulties: Past, Present, and Future 6. The Networks of Received and Anticipated Supports as a Risk Response to Urban Life in Asia 7. Life Satisfaction and Social Security in Three Megacities 8. Towards better urban well-being in Asian megacities
1.Urban Risk and Well-Being in Asian Megacities 2. Megacities matter: Socioeconomic dynamics and subjective well-being in three megacities 3. Asian Megacity Survey on Well-Being 4. Understanding urban well-being from a historical perspective 5. Perceived and Experienced Urban Risks and Life Difficulties: Past, Present, and Future 6. The Networks of Received and Anticipated Supports as a Risk Response to Urban Life in Asia 7. Life Satisfaction and Social Security in Three Megacities 8. Towards better urban well-being in Asian megacities
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