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Resource Urbanisms

Natural resources, urban form and infrastructure in the case of Asia’s diverging city models

The Resource Urbanisms project is co-funded by LSE Kuwait Programme and it aims at examining multiple aspects of how natural resources, urban form and infrastructure affect each other and potentially lead to the establishment of divergent forms of urbanism.

‘Resource Urbanisms: Natural resources, urban form and infrastructure in the case of Asia’s diverging city models’ is a two-year LSE Cities research project co-funded by LSE Kuwait Programme/LSE Middle East Centre to examine multiple aspects of how natural resources, urban form and infrastructure affect each other and potentially lead to the establishment of divergent forms of urbanism.

The project’s point of departure is the common assumption that cities and urban development are directly affected by the availability and costs of natural resources, and that in turn, different forms of urban development result in substantial differences in resource use. The project will primarily focus on the specific case of two natural resources, land and energy, and explore their relationships with city form, urban dwelling and mobility. It will analyse these relationships through a comparative case study approach which considers extreme and divergent city models in Asia.

The research will include the multi-scale temporal analysis of different types and changes of urban development in Kuwait and Abu Dhabi (a second Middle East comparator case) and two contrasting city types in East Asia, Hong Kong and Singapore.

 

Project Team

Principal Investigator
Philipp Rode

Project Experts
Sharifa Alshalfan
JM Bahu (EIFER)
Andreas Koch (EIFER)
Christiane Lange (HKU)
Peter Schwinger
Monjur Syed (EIFER)
Devisari Tunas (FCL/ETH)
Steffen Hertog (LSE)
Clemence Montagne (PSUAD)

Project coordinator
Alexandra Gomes

Researchers
Muhammad Adeel, Sharifa Alshalfan, Jenny McArthur, Fizzah Sajjad

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Resource Urbanisms - publication details | download full PDF (15.9 MB)

Between Abundance and Constraints: The Natural Resource Equation of Asia's Diverging, Higher-Income City Models - publication details | download full PDF (3.33 MB)

Principal Investigator
Philipp Rode

Project Experts
Sharifa Alshalfan
JM Bahu (EIFER)
Andreas Koch (EIFER)
Christiane Lange (HKU)
Peter Schwinger

Monjur Syed (EIFER)
Devisari Tunas (FCL/ETH)

Steffen Hertog (LSE)
Clemence Montagne (PSUAD)

Project coordinator
Alexandra Gomes

Researchers
Muhammad Adeel, Sharifa Alshalfan, Jenny McArthur, Fizzah Sajjad

Project partner
European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER)

Project Collaboration
Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi

Project funders
LSE Cities, LSE Kuwait Programme

Research strand
Cities, environment and climate change

Duration
2015 - 2017

Keywords
East Asia, Middle East, Cities, Land, Energy, Urban form, Transport