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1. Planning the Megacity

   Jakarta in the Twentieth Century

   By Christopher Silver

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Planning the Megacity examines the dramatic transformation of Jakarta over the past century. In 1900, the colonial capital of the Netherland Indies, then known as Batavia, was a compact city of approximately 150,000 inhabitants. During the next hundred years, but especially after 1950, it was...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
2. Planning and Decentralization

   Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South

   Edited by Victoria A. Beard, Faranak Miraftab, Christopher Silver

   The first in-depth study of the impact of economic and political decentralization on planning practice in developing economies, this innovative volume, using original case study research by leading experts drawn from diverse fields of inquiry, from planning to urban studies, geography and economics...

   Published June 3rd 2008 by Routledge