Indian and Asian Mega cities face crucial urban crisis, due to massive migration, urban explosion and over-starined urban services. The phenomena, processses, and planning policies needed are main foci of this study. The book has four parts. First part tells a very sad story of massive poverty-induced migration of illiterate labourers into four Indian mega cities. Urban decay in Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Shanghai, and Seoul are also discussed. Second, underlying spatial-eonomic-political processes behind such migration and urban decay in developing countries are unfolded. Third, Tokyo's improved meropolitan planning is highlighted as lessons for better urban management. Fourth, planning strategies are suggested to reduce such problems.....