PERI-URBAN PLANNING FOR DEVELOPING EAST ASIA: LEARNING FROM CHENGDU, CHINA AND YOGYAKARTA/KARTAMANTUL, INDONESIA

More than one hundred million people will settle in the peri-urban areas surrounding the urban areas of city regions in the developing countries of East Asia in the next decade. These areas are the epicenter of world urbanization where the greatest opportunities and most pressing problems coexist. Yet no East Asian city-region has a peri-urban plan. This article describes the nature of East Asian peri-urban areas and the peri-urbanization process occurring there today. It describes typical sites in peri-urban areas requiring remediation and which present potential problems and opportunities in the future. Drawing on the authors' research in Chengdu, China and the Yogyakarta/Kartamantul region of Indonesia, the article describes how innovative decision-making and governance and coordinated regional plans and policies can remediate and prevent problems and capitalize on opportunities in peri-urban areas.