THE NEW URBAN QUESTION
Urbanism beyond Neo-Liberalism
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Table of contents
Introduction
Jürgen Rosemann
The New Urban Question
Beyond The Crisis: Towards a New Urban Paradigm
Laura Burkhalter and Manuel Castells
Bridging the Ecologies of Cities and of Nature
Saskia Sassen
Looking Forward to Architecture of the New Millennium
Wu Liangyong
Fibercity as a Paradigm Shift of Urban Design
Hidetoshi Ohno
Dutch Spatial Planning and Hierarchy: Making Differences, Think-do-act, and Renewed Re-activism
Henk W.J. Ovink
The Formation of the West Coast Metropolitan Region of Taiwan in the Network Society
Chu-Joe Hsia
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The New Urban Economy
Full papers
Studies on Asian Mixed Use Urban Blocks and Their Applications on the Mono-functional Office Districts in the Netherlands
Tsaijer Cheng, Changfang Luo
Mega-event Strategy As a Tool of Urban Transformation: Sydney's Experience
Yawei Chen, Marjolein Spaans
The Strength of Connections: Innovation Engines in Creative Industries
A.P. Drogendijk, M. J. W. van Twist
Tracing the Roots of Cultural Industries: Employment Trends in Cultural Industries in Dutch Cities Since 1899
Michaël Deinema and Robert Kloosterman
Tourism and Urban Economy: Branding Cities and Producing Contradictory Spaces of Consumption
L. Girardi, P. F. Meliani
The Decline of The Industrial City: the Limits of Neoliberal Urban Regeneration
Tahl Kaminer
The Mall in the Online Shopping Era
Cristian Suau, Margarita Munar Bauzá
Macau's Urban Image Production - Before and After the Credit Crunch
Hendrik Tieben
Global Capitals Role in the (De)Structuration of Urban Space
Nikolaos Triantafyllopoulos
New! Coastal Ecologies: Destination Croatia
Sasha Zanko
New Economies of Landscape and its New Urban Form: Eco-tourism and Ecological Urbanism as a New Approach to Redevelopment in Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Sichuan Province, China
Shannon Bassett
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The Urbanized Society
Full papers
URBAN 2.0- Urban Coding as an Alternative to Planning?
Yoshihiko Baba
To Use or Not Use Urban Space
Tino Buchholz
Prosperity and Change: the Irish Manifestation of an Urbanising Waterfront City Quarter
P. Fallon, C. Wang
Informal Urbanism from Inside-Out: Internalizing Taipei Experiences of Informality
KANG, Min Jay
Service Space
Esther Lorenz
Returning to Wasting Away
Sara Marini
Inbetween Spaces for Social Interaction: New Public Realm and the Network Society
M.V. Grimaldi, P. Sulis
Housing the Elderly: Segregated in Senior Cities or Integrated in Urban Society?
Anton J.H. Smets
Profile of an ‘Urbanized Society’?: Slums, Gauthans, and ‘Lifestyle City’ in Kalyan-Dombivli, India
T. van Dijk, N. Sridharan
Preservation And Regeneration via Hai Pai Cultural Renaissance - A Case Study of Tianzifang Creative Quarter in Shanghai
Jieqiong Wang, Zigang Yao and Alan Peter March
Urban Culture in New Town Almere
J. Zhou, S.E. Commandeur
Atomizing the Urban: Social Change, Single Households and Spatial Transformations in Tokyo
Richard Ronald
Negative and Positive Freedom of Choice in Dutch Social Housing
Marco van der Land and Wenda Doff
Minimum…or Maximum Cities? Locating the New Frontiers of the Urban Question
Alastair Donald
Imag(in)ing the Global City. Postnational Filmmaking in Brussels and Amsterdam
Arne Saeys
Post “Generic City”- When a City is Nearly Expired
Waterfront Industrial Preservation & Development: the Shunde Case, the PRD
Doreen Heng LIU
A Study of New Design Concenpts in Student Housing Applied to the Italian Urban Context
Chiarantoni Carla
Welfare Space in Europe
S. Munarin, M. C. Tosi
The Chinese Housing Reform and the Following New Urban Question
Xiaoxi. Hui
Poster papers
Revitalization of Panam Nagar: Social Displacement and the Minority Issue
Tariq Mahbub Khan
A Research on the Educational Facilities in the Counties of Northwest China Based on the Integration of Urban and Rural Areas: A Case Study on the Chengcheng County, Shaanxi Province
Ma Yan, Wang Chen
New Urban Forms – Immigration in Network Societies
Eugenia Tsagkaraki
Lesbian Spaces in Beijing
TENG Jingru
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Urban Technologies and Sustainability
Full papers
Between Market Principles and Equity Concerns - The Provision of Basic Services in Cities of Latin America
Ana Maria Fernández-Maldonado
Potential of Energy Conservation Through Renovation of Existing Residential Buildings in China – the Case of Hangzhou City in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Region of China
GE Jian, WANG Jiaping, OUYANG Jinlong, HOKAO Kazunori
Exploration of the Urban Waterfront Greenway System Based on the ‘Interest Gravitation’
Zhao Hongyu, Chang Sheng
Organisation of Large Scale Green Covered Roofs- Improving the Collaboration of Policy Makers With Urban Designers
C.M. Ravesloot, P.G. Teeuw
Rethinking Sustainable Sanitation for The Urban Environment
Christoph Lüthi, Jennifer McConville, Anna Norström, Arne Panesar, Rahul Ingle, Darren Saywell, Thorsten Schütze
The Digital City Management System in Hangzhou as a Practise of Urban Governance in China
Shutian Li, Ka Wang, Lei Xu
Sustainable Urban Design Approaches- an Overview
N. Fleurke
The Consequences for China’s Mega Cities of the Global Economic Recession
Meine Pieter van Dijk
Urban Experiences in a Rural Environment. Small Rural Settlements in Lurin Valley, Lima, Peru
José Luis Chong Chong
Economic Changes and the Need for Design Strategies for More Sustainable Urban Projects: Values of Public Life, Space and Shared Desire.
Germaine Sanders and Robin Houterman
Eco-city and Eco-Planning in China: Taking An Example for Caofeidian Eco-city
Qiang Ma
Exploration on Contaminated Urban Manufactured Sites- Remediation Management Strategies in Beijing
GUO Yong
Assisted Living: Using GPS to Determine Design Tasks
S.C. van der Spek
A Water Field Civilization -the Hydraulic System of Three Agriculture Plains in Taiwan
Pei-chun Wen
Poster papers
Energy Conservation Research and Optimized Design of Natural Lighting Atriums- as the Example of International Trade City in Jiaxing
Zhuojia Wang, Jie Wang
The Characteristics of Development of Chinese Green Building
Yang Miao, Xu Lei, Jian Ge
Ecological Design With Urban Context- Case Study on “Compasso Volante Prize - Edition 2007” about Integrative Design of Ecological Architecture
Guo Cui
Contradictions of Ecological Construction and Urban Development in Hot-Dry Valley Areas- Case Study on Wenchuan County
Xie Yingying
ContradictionsMinimum Impact House: the Prototype for Sustainable Building in the City Centre and What’s Beyond the Prototype
Hans Drexler, Marc Guinand, Daniel Jauslin
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The Transformation of Urban Form
Full papers
Urbanity and Desire: Neighbourhood Change in the Contemporary Economy. The Case of Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Sandra Annunziata
Alvalade and Areeiro Neighbourhoods- From Spatiality to Significance
Ana Beja da Costa
Architecture Can Serve, Planning is Almost Unfunctional
Özlem Berber
Transformation of Waterfront space in Asian cities: Macau, Hong Kong, Shanghai
Chen Yu
Challenges of Urban Form in Fast-growing Chinese Cities: a Case Study of Kunshan
Xiangmin Guo
Galópolis and Forqueta: Visions of a Regional Landscape
Sandra Maria Favaro Barella, Décio Rigatti
Agonism, Consensus, and the Exception: On The Newest Monumentalists
Justin Fowler
Agropolitana. Dispersed City and Agricultural Spaces in Veneto Region (Italy)
V. Ferrario
Grand Taipei: the Porous City- A Research on the Urban Form of a Postcolonial City
Kuanchung Huang
Spatial Chaos; Addressing Spatial Over-production in Dublin, Ireland
Alan Mee
Grassroots Landscape Architecture for the Informal Asian City
J. Rekittke
Residential Spaces as Urban Fabric: the Case of São Paulo
Christine Van Sluys
Space Syntax Analysis of Foshan Street Network Transformation in Support Historic Area Redevelopment
YU Han, TSOU Jin-yeu, LONG Jiangang
Privately Owned Public Space in Hong Kong and New York: the Urban and Spatial Influence of the Policy
W.L. LUK
The Characteristics on the Generation of Urban Form of Hangzhou Combining With the High Speed Urbanization
Xi Zhang, Lei Xu, Ka Wang
New City/ Old City
Shira Szabo, Ron Henderson
Opening the Frontier Closed Area: A Mutual Benefit Zone
Joshua Bolchover and Peter Hasdell
Significance of the Praise of Shadows in Understanding Urban Tactility
Izumi Kuroishi
Revival of Shan-Shui Idea as a Sustainable Urban Form- a Case Study on Hangzhou
Shulan FU
Poster papers
Mutation of Tianzifang, Taikang Road, Shanghai
Hiroyuki Shinohara
The Transformation of Port and City in Kaohsiung
Chung Chen Kun
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The Design of the New Urban Space
Full papers
Oppidan Urbanism: Towards a New Public Space on the Waterfront
Matthew Bradbury
Design with Water in Dutch Low Land Cities
I. Bobbink
Research by Design: the ‘5X5 Project for the Dutch City’
Roberto Cavallo
Remoulding Topography
Sabina Favaro
Town Planning Doctrine in a Time of Pandemic
Sławomir Gzell
Water Margins- The Redevelopment of Waterfronts and Waterways in Asian Cities
L. Hee, B.L. Low
The Construction of Landscape Pattern at Comprehensive Planning Level in Northwestern China ——A Case Study of Ankang City
Huang Minghua, Chen Mo, Shi Xiaonan
An Analogy of Palimpsest as a Strategy Transforming Urban Structure into Architectural Discourse- Focused on Dominique Perrault’s Architecture of Strata
Koo, Young Min
The Rural Interior: Opening up Xochimilco to the Everyday Life of the City- Mexico City
Flor Marín Zamora
Constraint and Uncertainty: a Risk Perspective of Public Space Design and Maintenance
Ye ZHANG
Long Live the Genius Loci– Research to the Embedding of Urban and Landscape Architectural Designs to the Context for New Transformations
G.A. Verschuure- Stuip
Fragmented and Dispersed: Designing Brussels Rurban Landscape
Elke Vanempten
The Rhetoric and Reality of Culture-led Urban Regeneration- a Comparison of Beijing and Shanghai, China
J. Wang, S. Li
Neo-Mat-Building
Yuan Zhu
The Rule and the Model- an Approach to the Contemporary Urban Space
Cristina Soares Cavaco
The Design of a Productive Landscape: Barcelona Tres Turons Park, a Case Study
Ana M. Moya Pellitero, Emrah Türkyilmaz, Cigdem Canbay Türkyilmaz, Josué da Silva Eliziário
mEYEsite- an Emotional Approach to Urban Site Research
Héctor Giró, Margit Tamás
Towards New Architectural and Urban Models;
The Dutch Urban Block, Public Domain and City Economy
Susanne Komossa
Poster papers
Research on the Development Strategy and Characteristics of the 100 Urban Complexes in Hangzhou
Yuan Liao, Lei Xu, Zhenyu Cao
On intertwined and integrated dimensions- Alternative strategies to the new urban design
Kai Liu
The Overview of New Town Strategy in Hangzhou
Qian Qi, Lei Xu, Ka Wang
Classical Form and New Form- Approach to the Form of Linear Cities’ Spatial Layout in Eastern Region of Northwest China
Yang Hui, Huang Minghua
Conditions for New Neighborhoods
Zaida Muxí Martínez, Roser Casanovas
Emphasize Characteristics of Small Towns by Strengthening the Urban Design
Zhang Jian, Li Hailin, Liu Jia
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The New Metropolitan Region
Full papers
Regional Planning Choices: Comparing the RER in Brussels (BE) and the Stedenbaan in South-Holland (NL)
N. Casabella, P. Frenay
Urban Shape of Ahmedabad City Triggered by Industrial Activity, Case Study of Industrial Estates of GIDC
Rully Damayanti, Altrerosje Asri, Teguh Wijayanto
Examining the Spatial Spread of the Chinese Metropolitan Region from the Administrative
Division Adjustment Point of View: Taking Su-Xi-Chang Region of Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone as an Example
Yongfu Li, Anrong Dang and Hongying Cao
Towards a Definition of Urban Polycentrism for Brazilian Metropolises
Renata Parente Paula Pessoa
Notes for the Identification of Large Scale movement Routes- a Configurational approach of Porto Alegre Metropolitan Region
Cláudio Mainieri de Ugalde, Décio Rigatti, Fábio Zampieri
Efficient Urban Governance in Managing and Enhancing Competitiveness of Kuala Lumpur City-Region
Azmizam Abdul Rashid, Hamzah Jusoh, Jalaluddin Abdul Malek
“Learning From China”- Transit-Oriented and Landscape Infrastructure as a catalyst for a new spatial structuring of urban form…
Shannon Bassett
The Rural-Urban Transformation Through Urban Sprawl: An Assessment of Ankara Metropolitan Area
Kübra Cihangir Çamur, Sevinç Bahar YENIGÜL
Large-Scale Economic and Infrastructure Projects in India’s Metropolitan Cities. New Policies and Practices Among Competing Subnational States
Loraine Kennedy
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New Approaches of Urban Governance
Full papers
Dealing With Risks in Urban Governance: What can We Learn From ‘Resilience Thinking’
I.S.A.Baud, M.A.Hordijk
Analysing the Urban Vision in Ghent and Liege- on Good Intentions and its Dubious Consequences
Cassiers, T., Leclercq, E.
Gradual Empowerment- New Methods for Bottom-Up Urban Renewal in Angola
Gabriel Duarte, Ricardo Kawamoto, Renata Bertol
Computational Urbanism- a Parametric Relational Urban Model for Urban Plot Ratio Allocation
Han Feng, Yu Zhang
Throw the Bums Out: Two Case Studies at the Limits of Wal-Mart’s Retail Empire
Jesse LeCavalier
Urban Social Movements: Gender Approaches
Zaida Muxí Martínez, Tania Magro Huertas
Uncertainty Gap between Land Use Planning Decision Making and Implementation- Analysis of the Greenbelt Policies of Beijing, China
Xianmin Mai, Yoshitsugu Hayashi and Teng Su
Local Institutional Environments as Filters of the Renewal of Derelict Industrial Sites- a Comparative Analysis of Bovisa (Milan) and Westergasfabriek (Amsterdam)
Francesca Miazzo
Shrinking Cities: Explaining (Local) Government Response
André Mulder
Neural Networks and Contestations in City Governance- Governing Indian Metropolises
N. Sridharan
Bottom-Up Initiatives and the Local Spatial Agenda: Understanding Local Interests in the Functioning of Public Space
Robin Houterman and Germaine Sanders
Metropolitan Strategies: Diplomacy Fuelled by Stories
Bas van Leeuwen
Needed: an Intelligent and Integrated Vision for Brussels’ Urban Planning
S. Vermeulen
Integrated Urban Strategies: Two Case Studies for Cross Border Prosperity
Alexander G. Vollebregt
The Thinking of Mixed Use from a Perspective of the Hutong Protection
YANG Yang, WU Songnan, HUANG Tianhang
Explorations on Socio-Spatial Integrative Strategies Based on the Transformative Potentialities of Implementing a Polycentric Metropolitan Model
Flavio Janchez and Diego Sepúlveda
Poster papers
Consideration of Local Sub-councils in Optimum Governance of Urban- Case Study: Local Sub-councils of Tehran
M.R. Hafeznia, H. Veicy
Endogenous Development in Making: Viewpoint of Network Structure Change in Chiufen
Li-Pei Peng
Urban Development in a quasi - ‘Neoliberalism’ Market Economy – Moganshan District, Shanghai, China
HENG Chye Kiang & WANG Jingyao
Study on the Consensus Making and the Technical Consultative Function in the Case of Bottom-up Styled Associations in Grenoble, France
Kumi EGUCHI
Institutional Understanding of Water Governance in Taipei
Pei-Wen Lu
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Changing Planning Cultures
Full papers
The Shanghai Model: A New Hanseatic League
Gregory Bracken
The Role of Image in Creating the Post-socialist City (Case Study of Kazan, Tatarstan)
Nadir Kinossian
Changing Public and Private Roles in Urban Area Development in the Netherlands
Erwin Heurkens
Communicative Place-Making: Participatory Planning and the Enhancement of Sense
Pablo Juárez
WEB 2.0 and the Emergence of a New Planning Culture
R. Marijnissen
The Mega-Event as a Strategy in Spatial Planning: Starting from the Olympic City of Barcelona
Lei Qu and Marjolein Spaans
Cohesion and Flexibility in Urban Design Process in Amsterdam- Analysis by the Frame of Time and Scale
M. Ryu
Bringing People Back into the Picture: De-emphasizing Business Friendliness in Urban Planning
M. Simon Rojo, N. Moran Alonso, A. Hernandez Aja
The Right to the City as a Tool for Urban Social Movements: the Case of Barceloneta
R.W.J. Boer, J. de Vries
Catalonian Neighbourhood Development Law: the Gender Perspective as a Planning Tool
Zaida Muxí Martínez, Adriana Ciocoletto
Planning Between Reliability and Flexibility- Contemporary Urban Development In China
Chiu Yuan Wang
The Conceptual Transformation From Government to Governance and its Representations- a Case Study on the Innovations in City Management of Hangzhou
PengYuanfang, Xu Lei, Wang Ka
A Strategic and Sustainable Agenda for San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo León, Mexico: an Experience of Citizen Participation and Mixed Ventures
Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano
Post Generic City- Learning From Shenzhen
The Gongming Experiment
Laurence LIAUW Wie Wu
Shanghai New Towns- Searching for Community and Identity in a Sprawling Metropolis
Harry den Hartog
Research on the Beijing Rural Villages’ Classification & Development Under Urbanization
ZHAO Zhifeng
Intensity Control in Mixed-used New Urban Area: a Case Study of the Waterfront in Xiasha, Hangzhou
Zhou Yinan, Hua Chen
Poster papers
Preventive Landscapes
Alberto Bertagna
Changing Planning by Dutch Housing Associations- From Supply to Demand-driven and From Customer to Area-driven Strategic Housing Management
A.J. van Overmeeren, S. Zijlstra
Planning Culture of Turkey in Case of Bodrum
H. Ö. Özhisar
Re-inventing Brussels: How Knowledge on Alternative Urban Development Projects Can Alter Urban Policies
Burak Pak, Annette Kuhk
Transitional Spatial Structures and Housing Development in Peripheral Shanghai
Jinghuan He
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