1978年11月国际人类学人种学协会在德坐举行第十次大会。这次会议组织成立了“发展地区城市化”专题研究小组。本书集该小组部分调查研究论文而成。当前城市化已经成为发展中国家面临的主要问题之一。本书为第三世界的城市化问题提出了新设想,而解决城市穷人生存问题则是本书的主要内容。本书导论指出:在东南亚,大多数城市 November 1978 International Anthropological Ethnology Association to sit in the Tenth Congress in Germany. The meeting organized the establishment of a “development of regional urbanization” thematic research team. This book is part of a group of research papers. The current urbanization has become one of the major problems facing developing countries. This book presents new ideas for urbanization in the Third World, and addressing the survival of the urban poor is the main content of this book. The introduction to this book states: In Southeast Asia, most cities