Preface
Bharat Dahiya and Ashok Das

Section 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: The New Urban Agenda in the Asia-Pacific
Bharat Dahiya and Ashok Das

Chapter 2: Resilience-Based Urban Disaster Management
Allen Clark

Section 2: Urban Planning and Policy

Chapter 3: From Urban Policy Making to Implementation: Reviving Riverine Urban Community of Amphawa, Thailand
Bharat Dahiya and Wichaya Komin

Chapter 4: Integrating Urban and Rural Development (IURD) through Governance Program in China's Megacities: A Suzhou Model
Min Zhao, Chenhao Fang, Chen Chen, Richard LeGates

Chapter 5: Case study (India)
Debolina Kundu

Chapter 6: Urban Planning, Policy and Governance Challenges: A Case Study of Megacity of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Salahuddin Aminuzzaman

Chapter 7: Urban Governance Challenges and Reforms in Indonesia
Wilmar Salim

Chapter 8: Issues in Urban Planning and Policy: Case Study of Lahore, Pakistan
Nasir Javed and Asad Jan

Section 3: Innovations in Service Delivery and Access toward Social Inclusion

Chapter 9: Financing Local Infrastructure and Public Services-A Township Case in Suburban Suzhou
Xu Chen, Min Zhao, Richard LeGates

Chapter 10: Urban Governance in Australia: A case study of Brisbane city
Bhishna Bajracharya and Shahed Khan

Chapter 11: Re-thinking, re-form and re-imagine urban planning in Indonesia: Kota Kita and Community Participation in Cities
John Taylor

Chapter 12: The Changing Role of Voluntary Regional Organisations in Australia: A case study from Perth
Shahed Khan and Bhishna Bajracharya

Chapter 13: Urban Service Delivery and Access: The special case of Brunei Darussalam
Pushpa Thambipillai and Li Li Pang

Chapter 14: Guizhou Province's Six Action Plan Program for Rural Infrastructure
Feng Luan, Haiyan Zou, Hui XI, Ben Yang

Chapter 15: The political economy of urban governance in Asian cities - delivering water, sanitation and solid waste management services
Hashim Zaidi, Ammar Malik and Jamie Boex

Chapter 16: Relevant practices for social inclusion by local governments
Björn Moller

Section 4: Emerging Trends and Future Trajectories

Chapter 17: Emerging Trends and Future Trajectories
Ashok Das and Bharat Dahiya