Abstract:
In 1991, T.G. McGee published a chapter, named “The Emergence of Desakota Region in Asia:
Expanding a Hypothesis” as a part of the book The Extended Metropolis Settlement Transition in Asia.
This is his findings on the transitions and changes of peri-urban areas in Asia, particularly in Southeast
Asia, which contributes to sketch a spatial model and structure of major cities and to elucidate relations
of the transitions in peri-urban areas to core cities. In this essay, based on the T. G. Mc Gee’s research,
we examine a de-facto situation which is occurring in peri-urban areas of Western Hanoi, specifically
in Hoài ??c, ?an Ph??ng, Qu?c Oai, Th?ch Th?t, and Ch??ng M? districts. |
