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.
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
18 March 2021 | Resource Urbanisms between abundance and constraints research seminar
7 November 2017 | Efficiency by Design: Urban growth in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Singapore
22 March 2017 | Resource Urbanisms Project Workshop - London
3 November 2016 | Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life
28 September 2016 | Resource Urbanisms Project Workshop - Kuwait
27 September 2016 | Cities and the new climate economy: on the role of urban form and transport
26 September 2016 | Resource Urbanisms Project Workshop - Abu Dhabi
27 Nov 2017 | Alexandra Gomes speaks on Resource Urbanisms at Newcastle University
7 Nov 2017 | Philipp Rode launches Resource Urbanisms report in Kuwait
8 Sep 2017 | Philipp Rode presents Resource Urbanisms research at ETH Zurich
6 Sep 2017 | Philipp Rode to deliver keynote at International Housing Forum
10 Jul 2017 | Resource Urbanisms presented at AESOP conference
27 Apr 2017 | Alexandra Gomes contributes to planning and environmental management seminar at the University of Manchester
29 Mar 2017 | Muhammad Adeel to present on resource urbanisms project in Paris
27 Sep 2016 | Philipp Rode presents on cities and the new climate economy in Kuwait
28 Jul 2015 | New LSE Cities research project on Resource Urbanisms
Research reports
Between Abundance and Constraints: The Natural Resource Equation of Asia's Diverging, Higher-Income City Models - publication details | download full PDF (3.33 MB)
Research strand
Urban Sustainability, Technology and Justice
Duration
2015–2017
Keywords
East Asia, Middle East, Cities, Land, Energy, Urban form, Transport