Emerging participative approaches for urban regeneration in Chinese megacities

The rapid development of Chinese megacities in the last decades have been mainly characterized by top-down planning and large-scale urban development and redevelopment, as well as by using place-making as a tool for city branding. This approach has also been used in other countries and has been constantly criticized for replacing old...

Towards Credible City Branding Practices: How Do Iran’s Largest Cities Face Ecological Modernization?

City branding is not only increasingly practiced in cities in established economies, but also among municipal governments in countries, until quite recently, rather closed off from the outside world. One country with a strong drive to engage in urban (re)development in the post-oil era through enhancing its ‘ecological modernization’ is Iran....

smart FOR China 2025

China is the biggest car market worldwide in which smart is operating for six years now, it is also the biggest market for smart. The assignment is to Design a new mobility device for the Chinese megacities of 2025. The context of the Chinese megacity environment is analyzed (e.g. using input from a three week field study in China). In the...

Managing the Lagos megacity and its geospatial iperative

Lagos has assumed the Megacity status and it is projected to have its population doubled in the first quarter of this century. The Megacity has extended beyond the administrative boundary of the state, which is also one of the fastest growing urban agglomerations in the world. Information is the most vital component of urban management; however,...

Urban Growth Modeling to Predict the Changes in the Urban Microclimate and Urban Water Cycle

The consequences of urban growth on the exposure, sensitivity but also as a driver of flooding are often underexposed. Yet, the rate of current urbanization is unprecedented and might increase future flood risk dramatically. To gain insight in this issue, a study on urban development has been performed using 3 case study areas: the megacities of...

E Motio Mobility at the end -first and last mile- of the intermodal passenger transport in a European megacity

After a human-centered design process crucial conditions were identified in the changing-process of development and growing of the European Megacities (overpopulation, limited amount of resources, congestion of infrastructure, penetration of new ITC, etc.) these situations created an ideal scenario for Motio Development to identify design...