This essay reflects on the key policy issues and imperatives vis-Ã -vis sustainable urbanization in Southeast Asia, and discusses some of the significant challenges and opportunities related to urban demographic expansion and sub-national development. To national and local policy-makers within this dynamic region, the scale, pace and complexity of urbanization poses both huge challenges and unique opportunities. It is against this socio-cultural and politico-economic backdrop that Southeast Asia's urbanization process has been unfolding. In 2015, the region will make its final preparations to launch the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). As a sociocultural, economic and geographical collective, the region is surging ahead as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Today the region is part of an increasingly globalized world.Įvolving political processes, expanding national economies and changing environmental conditions exert strong influence on people's lives, livelihoods, lifestyles and worldview.
In the past, cultural traditions and long-established political systems governed human behavior, societies and settlements in Southeast Asia. WHETHER the Sanskrit nagara, the Roman civitas or whatever else be their source of historic-cultural inspiration, cities are understood to represent the highest form of sociocultural achievement in human civilization.
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