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Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century

Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century

Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century

$120.00

Silver, Christopher

Cl. New York, 2006

Book ID: 71410

In this book, the first on the planning history of Jarkarta, able expert Christopher Silver describes how planning has shaped urban development in Southeast Asia, and in particular how its largest city, Jakarta, Indonesia, was transformed from a colonial capital of approximately 150,000 in 1900 to a megacity of 12 - 13 million inhabitants in 2000.

262 pp., 50 halftone illus.