Repower the Petroleumscape of Daqing

Combining Energy Landscape Theory and Scenario Planning in a Post-petroleum Planning of Daqing

Master Thesis (2019)
Author(s)

X. Cui (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)

Contributor(s)

Alexander Wandl – Mentor (TU Delft - Environmental Technology and Design)

N.M.J.D. Tillie – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Landscape Architecture)

Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright
© 2019 Xue Cui
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Publication Year
2019
Language
English
Copyright
© 2019 Xue Cui
Coordinates
46.6, 125.02
Graduation Date
22-01-2019
Awarding Institution
Delft University of Technology
Programme
Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Abstract

As petroleum depletion and climate change becoming evident, it is relevant for urban designers and planners to think within a new energy paradigm contextualized by post-petroleum era. This report combines drosscape and energy landscape theory with post-petroleum planning, and tests this proposed method in Daqing, an oil city located in the northeast fringe of China. The present conditions of Daqing are analysed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the situation. Scenario building is then applied as a scholarly research method to deal with the future uncertainties in the hypothetical post-petroleum context, and picture spatial consequences of Daqing powered by renewable energy. Among the possible futures, two scenarios concerning renewable energy supply a base, upon which series of spatial strategies are delineated. This report is a research-based design – an experiment of using landscape (especially the abandoned petroleumscape) to facilitate renewable energy production and pursue urban economic and energy resilience, while improving the spatial quality of Daqing.

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