Download or read book Housing in Southeast Asian Capital Cities written by Giok Ling Ooi and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents some of the wider debates on housing and development while focusing on the major Southeast Asian capital cities: Jakarta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Metro Manila. All these cities have expanded enormously in terms of population and size, all have enormous problems ranging from provision of clean water and sustainable housing for the poor to dealing with a constant inflow of rural-urban migrants. Despite this, most city governments remain worryingly ineffectual or uncommitted to solving urgent problems of their expanding cities.