Reader response draft 1

In the article “Explosive growth in Asian cities: Bright ideas to Seize the Urban Moment”, Khanna (2015) believes that South-east Asian metropolises are the next reference model of “urban development” in the current era. She states that metropolises are going through an increase of population due to large amount of movement from the counties’ rural area to its cities; this influx is pushing metropolises to expand in magnitude and in turn, will leads to “urban sprawl”. The writer reports that when providing basic necessities such as water, housing and reliable transport; the magnitude of these metropolises are posing complicated problems for their local governments. Khanna argues that South-east Asian capitals are taking on the issues posed with "flexible governments, resourceful citizens and local infrastructure innovation." However, the lack of analysis of the example given by the author makes the argument incomplete. 

Firstly, the author talks about the huge population in asian cities. She talks about issues caused by the effect of having a huge population; mainly the difficulty delivering basic necessities. However, she did not provide any solution to the issue.  Next, khanna lists a number of mobile apps which different countries implement which are supposed to foster a more proactive government - citizen relationship. However, the example used for singapore is not convicting as the app does not have any recognition in the locals with only a thousand downloads.

While Khanna has lists examples of few app. These app do not contribute to the solution south east asian metropolises are currently facing. All in all, the writer should have provide a much more comprehensive example of what these countries are doing currently to counter the effect of the huge increase in the population.