The Emerging Asian City is a complex and capacious subject. It is about an urban landscape covering a third of the planet’s land mass, and the lives of nearly half of its inhabitants living in some of its oldest, largest and densest cities. It encompasses the histories of major world religions – Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Christianity, some of the most dramatic colonizations and Westernizations outside the Euro-American world and the world’s tallest building - Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, fastest growing city – Beihai in China, and two of the fastest growing economies - China and India. It includes more than half of the world’s slum population. And per the United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat 2001), by 2015, it will include an estimated 153 from a total of 358 global cities with populations exceeding a million and 15 from an estimated 27 mega-cities with populations exceeding ten million, with migratory flows through, to, and beyond these particular locations.