Chinese cities became one of the most dynamic urban areas worldwide within last decades.
Rapid economic growth and immense population pressure led to special structural characteristics and high environmental impacts. The interdisciplinary and international work group, composed by urban geography, hydrogeology and landscape architecture, provides new approaches for investigating the structures and the steering mechanisms of urban development. In order to reduce in a first step the complex processes related to the development of highly dynamic mega urban areas we take flows of the resource ‘water’ and water management as an example and, secondly, subdivide the large urban agglomeration into smaller units. Within these different types of ‘urban cells’ in-depth analysis of various socioeconomic, morphological and ecological structures as well as agency structures and mechanisms become feasible. The analysis of the informal influences on formal structures and the appropriate reciprocity between different ‘urban cells’ and their surrounding urban spaces respectively is intended to provide further knowledge about the actual processes and adapted governance systems in the overall mega urban area.
- Title Original : Analysis of informal dynamics in mega urban areas – Based on spatial structure and steering mechanisms focused on water in the Pearl River Delta
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- Notes : Principal objects: - Analysis of the processes related to the development of highly complex, mega urban settlement areas in the Pearl River Delta by the example of the resource 'water‘ - Description of the influence of local parameters on formal settlement structures - Deflection of knowledge for future decisions regarding to urban extensions and respectively to the change of existing settlement parts Sub-goals: - Definition of characteristic, more or less homogeneous urban areas > 'urban cells‘ - Identification of the ecological, economic and social specific values of the 'urban cell' types and the appropriate reciprocity - Examination of these specific values based on representative case examples - Description of discrepancies/diversifications of the 'urban cell'-types due to local processes - Assignment of the discrepancy tendencies and the total characteristics respectively to typical 'urban cell'-types on planned interferences/measures in the settlement development (extension, restructuring, removal)
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- Contact Person : Prof. Dr. Krause, Christoph Ruckert
- Funding Agency : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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