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There is no alternative to cities. Cities have no choice but to live with and to catch up with others that are already way ahead. However, the phenomenal growth of urban population in east asia poses its own blessings and grave challenges. The process of urbanization must be understood as a basic condition for as a functional consequences of economic, social and technological development. But rapidity that surpass an absorptive capacity, and mega-city phenomenon and its offspring of urban corridors have rendered promises as well as challenges. The First is the international impact of urbanization in East Asian countries. As economic growth becomes more interdependent among nation, cities in national systems begin to articulate across national boundaries with specific functional complementarities. Secondly, excessive Concentration of population and economic activities has brought with serious environmental problems. Questions arise on the sustainability of urbanizing East Asian continent. Environmental problems are also becoming transnational. The third issue is that the emergence of urban corridors have accentuated the on-going disparities at international, nation and interurban levels.