City Branding: An empirical study into City branding based on infrastructure, landscape and spatial/planning in Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Singapore and Doha: Branding upcoming cities in the Middle and Far East

Within the field of construction management & engineering are upcoming cities investigated on how they achieved economic development and how they increased the quality of life by using the phenomena of city branding as development tool. By doing so (city branding), cities hope to get a better position on the global market to attract...

One City Nine 'Ghost' Towns? -Seeking an alternative growth model to vitalize the Lingang New Harbor City in Shanghai

Problem definition -Most of the new built neighborhoods in Lingang area are empty or unvital, and a problematic urban pattern dominanted in building this kind of new towns. Design Goals -Improving the current growth model of building Lingang New Harbour City to resist speculative growth, improve the urban environment and vitalize the new towns....