Developing Sustainable Urban Areas: Recommendations on urban form and development approach based on theory and top-down & bottom-up planning examples Overhoeks and Buiksloterham

In recent years the concept of mixed-use has emerged as a popular planning tool for urban planners to develop sustainable urban areas. With reason, because a clear positive relationship between function mix and urban sustainability in social, environmental and economic sense can be established from research. In practice however, we see that the...

The Daqing Oil Cluster: From petroleum hub to sustainable future

Since the mid-20th century, the Chinese government in collaboration with various governmental petroleum authorities, first with the Ministry of Petroleum and later with state-owned companies, has transformed the built environment on multiple levels, creating interrelated infrastructures and production sites, installing refineries and...

Tensions and opportunities at Shanghai’s waterfronts: Laboratories for Institutional Strategies toward Sustainable Urban Planning and Delta Design Transitions

How can the Global North oriented and welfare state rooted Sustainability Transitions theories be enriched with the Chinese and communist state rooted Ecological Civilization thinking that has been included in the Chinese constitution since 2007, to make it able to evaluate the making of the direct-controlled municipality Shanghai into an...