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W.M. de Jong
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Introducing a classification framework to urban waste policy
Analysis of sixteen zero-waste cities in China
Chinese cities are experiencing rapid urban development while facing severe challenges of environmental pollution. China's central government has proposed several policies to reduce urban waste. However, little is known about the adoption of these policies. Here, we raise the que
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From city promotion via city marketing to city branding
Examining urban strategies in 23 Chinese cities
City promotion, city marketing and city branding are all frequently mentioned and examined in the literature on urban governance. Based on the goals and characteristics of different city branding strategies, this study identifies a growing level of sophistication from city promot
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Unravelling Decision-Making Processes on Location Choices for High-Speed Railway Stations in China
A Comparison of Shenzhen, Lanzhou and Jingmen
Most High-Speed Railway (HSR) station areas in China can be found at the urban periphery or in suburban areas, a phenomenon that has often been criticised. While debate about the influence these location choices have on the economic and sustainable development of cities rages on,
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Economic transformation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region
Is it undergoing the Environmental Kuznets Curve?
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region Integration Plan is one of the most important national strategies in China promoting regional economic development. The environmental problems in this region, however, especially air pollution and contaminated groundwater, have enormous influence
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Seeing the People’s Republic of China through the Eyes of Montesquieu
Why Sino-European Collaboration on Eco City Development Suffers from European Misinterpretations of “Good Governance”
China faces a number of impressive challenges in dealing with climate change: rising energy use, growing emission levels of greenhouse gases, dangerous levels of air pollution over cities and low resilience against flood and drought. Sustainable urbanization has been adopted as a
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Financing Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City
What lessons can be drawn for other large-scale sustainable city-projects?
Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City (SSTEC) is currently the best-known and arguably the most successful large-scale sustainable new town development project in China; as such, experiences gathered there are of significant importance for the development of other eco-cities in China a
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Bypassing institutional barriers
New types of transit-oriented development in China
China is often viewed as an emerging experimental base for transit-oriented development (TOD) practices because of its rapid urban growth and development of mass transit networks. The implementation of TOD can be heavily influenced by institutional barriers to urban growth. Howev
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Funding sustainable cities
A comparative study of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City and Shenzhen International Low-Carbon City
China has gone through a rapid process of urbanization, but this has come along with serious environmental problems. Therefore, it has started to develop various eco-cities, low-carbon cities, and other types of sustainable cities. The massive launch of these sustainable initiati
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Dreaming the wrong dream
An exploratory case study of a policy change toward sustainable urban development in a medium-sized Chinese city
Sustainable urban transformation has become a mantra for Chinese cities. While most studies focus on sustainable urbanization in megacities, the far larger number of medium-sized cities is understudied, although the latter face more severe urban problems. This article develops a
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Integrated transport management
Lessons from a Chinese city
Sustainable transport typically requires a broad spectrum of policy measures, with responsibilities shared by different authorities and with various public values competed with each other, such as commuting, health, spatial quality, and economic development. Designing and impleme
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Economic City Branding in China
The Multi-Level Governance of Municipal Self-Promotion in the Greater Pearl River Delta
In the urban development policy in China, city brands play an important role in setting targets for Chinese cities. These economic city brands, however, are not produced in an institutional vacuum: they are embedded in the visions national, provincial and municipal governments ha
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Transport Demand Management Policy Integration in Chinese Cities
A Proposed Analysis of Its Effects
Transport demand management (TDM) measures are widely regarded as essential tools to deal with traffic issues. Their effectiveness has been under scrutiny. Packaging of TDM measures has recently received much attention from researchers and governments because it can achieve more
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The Governance of Risks in Ridesharing
A Revelatory Case from Singapore
Recently we have witnessed the worldwide adoption of many different types of innovative technologies, such as crowdsourcing, ridesharing, open and big data, aiming at delivering public services more efficiently and effectively. Among them, ridesharing has received substantial att
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City Branding in Polycentric Regions
A qualitative study of implementation in three Dutch Cities
The purpose of this research is to study the implementation of ecological modernization branding in the cities of The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht in the Netherlands. These cities use ecological modernization branding to attract people, projects and investments. For example, they
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Strategic niche management of the internet bike rental in China
A case study of Hangzhou
This research looks into the internet bike rental (a newly-emerged bike sharing system) with the aim of demonstrating its development in Hangzhou and identifying the potential solutions that could alleviate the current issues it encounters. The theoretical frameworks of Strategic
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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
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A Study of City Branding on the Chinese Resource-based Cities
The Case of Heilongjiang Province
"Ecological modernization" derives from the discussion over the global warming and environmental deterioration. All these changes are accused of the over-rapid progress of urbanization. As one of the fastest-growing countries, the developmental way of China attracts wide attentio
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Use of scenarios in participatory ADM
A comparative action research approach in the Paraná Delta, Argentina
In this thesis, the usage of scenarios for the participatory application of ADM is investigated in the context of the Paraná Delta, in Argentina. The focus is two-fold: (1) the research focuses on how a participatory design for ADM can be made, and (2) it focuses on which moment
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Shock Safe Nepal
Validation of the model house and a long-term plan for sustainable upscaling of earthquake resistant housing in rural areas in Nepal
Shock Safe Nepal was founded as a response to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes to function as a platform to contribute to the development of knowledge on earthquake safe housing. The goal of the report of team 5 is to validate and optimise the design of the pilot house that was created
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Moving in sync
Designing and implementing transport policy packages
Congestion in and pollution by traffic are amongst the most severe and urgent problems faced by both developed and developing countries these days. It is regarded as a "wicked" problem, which implies it is both hard to define the inherent problem and to find adequate measures to
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