New Actors in the Old Hierarchies: Alliances for Low-Carbon Urban Development in Shenzhen, China

2021 ◽  
pp. 0739456X2110028
Author(s):  
Yunjing Li
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Global South ◽  
Multilevel Governance ◽  
State System ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon City

The integration of climate mitigation into urbanization has brought new actors to city planning and building. This study examines the driving actors of decarbonization-focused urban development in a Global South context through the case of Shenzhen International Low-Carbon City (SILCC), China. It outlines a complex governing landscape that combines new genres of actors and traditional hierarchical relationships within the state system. The paper further elaborates on how this ostensible multilevel governance is used strategically as a new source of legitimation for mega development projects, indicating the shifting legitimacy foundation for urban development to new levels of governance and onto different actors in the era of climate change.

Megaprojects and the limits of ‘green resilience’ in the global South: Two cases from Malaysia and Qatar

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1520-1535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agatino Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Health ◽  
Global South ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Spatial Processes ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Resilience Thinking

The emergence of the climate change discourse in urban planning emphasises resilience as a key concept to deal with issues such as climate mitigation and adaptation, and urban health. What we have termed in this article ‘green resilience’, the coalescence of technological solutions and resilience thinking to solve cities’ ecological issues, is constantly gaining traction in urban planning research. However, green resilience often fails to take into account the socio-political and spatial processes that pertain to the exploitation of land for urban development particularly in the global South. Based on our latest research on two urban megaprojects, in Johor-Singapore (Malaysia) and Doha (Qatar), in this article we build a critique of green resilience and urbanism by leveraging research in the fields of environmental humanities and urban planning.

Discussion of China's City Planning Based on the Concept of Low-Carbon

2013 ◽  
Vol 689 ◽  
pp. 514-518
Author(s):  
Hong Yan Li
Keyword(s):  
City Planning ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon City ◽  
The City

It becomes a research hotspot that how to realize low carbon in the city planning, and it gets more and more attention.In this paper, on the basis of current research achievements, low carbon city planning suitable to our country is discussed. Based on the idea of low carbon, design goals, contents, and methods of China's low carbon city planning are studied, which can be a reference for designers.

scholarly journals Energy-Related Carbon Emissions of China’s Model Environmental Cities

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Kevin Lo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Garden Cities ◽  
Annual Carbon ◽  
Per Capita

This paper identifies three types of model environmental cities in China and examines their levels of energy-related carbon emissions using a bottom-up accounting system. Model environmental cities are identified as those that have been recently awarded official recognition from the central government for their efforts in environmental protection. The findings show that, on average, the Low-Carbon Cities have lower annual carbon emissions, carbon intensities, and per capita emissions than the Eco-Garden Cities and the Environmental Protection Cities. Compared internationally, the Eco-Garden Cities and the Environmental Protection Cities have per capita emissions that are similar to those of American cities whereas per capita emissions from the Low-Carbon Cities are similar to those of European cities. The result indicates that addressing climate change is not a priority for some model environmental cities. Policy changes are needed to prioritize climate mitigation in these cities, considering that climate change is a cross-cutting environmental issue with wide-ranging impact.

Landscape Design of Urban Green Space Adaptive to Global Climate Change a Review

2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 6842-6845
Author(s):  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Yan Hui Sui ◽  
Xue Biao Geng
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Urban Green Space ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Ecological Principle ◽  
Low Carbon City

Low-carbon city provide both opportunity and challenge for landscape architecture. Urban green space planning and design are the most important way to achieve the landscape adaptive to globe climate change. In this paper, we introduced importance and significance of urban green space in low-carbon landscape, and reviewed many new design solutions, such as construction of green infrastructure, protection of natural vegetation and ecosystems, use of phytoremediation and application of urban productive landscape. Via innovative design solution and ecological principle, landscape architects would create a substantially new aesthetics to ensure the survivance of humanity.

Study on Green City Construction and Sustainable Development – Low Carbon City from Theory to Create

2014 ◽  
Vol 548-549 ◽  
pp. 1773-1777
Author(s):  
Qun Liu ◽  
Jiang Hua Zhuo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Saving Technology ◽  
City Construction ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Low Carbon City ◽  
Economic Vitality

The trend of low-carbon in world and resource shortages, environmental carrying capacity of weak basic conditions, decided to go low-carbon path is an inevitable choice in China. The city’s ecological environment, cultural tastes, economic vitality, management systems, technological progress has become the focus of urban studies nowadays. Study on how to improve the energy-saving technology to create a low-carbon life is the fundamental way to achieve sustainable urban development. Therefore, the study of low-carbon urban development, is not only has theoretical values, but also owns practical significance. In this paper the reason for low-carbon city, the basic concept of sustainable development was discussed. The significance of the construction of green ecological city and the future direction of the green eco-city construction was presented.

scholarly journals Urban Design Strategy from the Perspective of Low-Carbon City Planning

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Wei Qian
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Low Carbon City

<p>The economy growth has improved the development of cities. In cities' continuous development and construction process, carbon emissions are also gradually increasing, causing serious environmental pollution and energy shortage. At present, low-carbon urban planning and design has become the demand of contemporary urban construction, and sustainable low-carbon economy has become the inevitable choice of urban planning. Based on this, this article briefly introduces the concept of low-carbon city planning and the principles of urban design from the perspective of low-carbon city. By analyzing the existing problems in current urban planning, this article proposes urban design strategies from the view of low-carbon city planning, seeking to make contributions to the improvement of urban planning levels.</p>

scholarly journals The Embeddedness of Urban Climate Politics in Multilevel Governance: A Case Study of South Africa’s Major Cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hickmann ◽  
Fee Stehle
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Multilevel Governance ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Transnational City ◽  
Political Economic

Numerous scholars have lately highlighted the importance of cities in the global response to climate change. However, we still have little systematic knowledge on the evolution of urban climate politics in the Global South. In particular, we lack empirical studies that examine how local climate actions arise in political-administrative systems of developing and emerging economies. Therefore, this article adopts a multilevel governance perspective to explore the climate mitigation responses of three major cities in South Africa by looking at their vertical and horizontal integration in the wider governance framework. In the absence of a coherent national climate policy, Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban have developed distinct climate actions within their jurisdictions. In their effort to address climate change, transnational city networks have provided considerable technical support to these cities. Yet, substantial domestic political-economic obstacles hinder the three cities to develop a more ambitious stance on climate change.

Editorial: An Expedition into Architecture and Urbanism of the Global South

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Ashraf M. Salama ◽  
David Grierson
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Global South ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Place Management ◽  
Architectural Production ◽  
The World

The nations of Africa, Central and Latin America, and most of Asia are collectively known as the Global South, which includes practically 157 of a total of 184 recognized states in the world according to United Nations reports. Metaphorically, it can be argued that most of the efforts in architectural production, city planning, place making, place management, and urban development are taking place in the Global South and will continue to be so over the next several decades.

An Integrated Algorithm for Low-Carbon City Evaluation Based on Neural Network and Analytic Hierarchy Process

2014 ◽  
Vol 631-632 ◽  
pp. 129-132
Author(s):  
Xiao Yong Tan ◽  
Yong Mei Ren
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Index System ◽  
Low Carbon City ◽  
Planning And Construction ◽  
Hierarchy Process

The low-carbon city evaluation has great significance to promote the urban construction management and sustainable development of city. In order to establish a suitable low-carbon city evaluation method to measure the performance of low-carbon city planning and construction, based on the index system of low-carbon city evaluation in the Pressure Status Response (PSR) framework, an integrated algorithm for low-carbon city evaluation combining BP neural network with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is proposed. Furthermore, the possible ways for optimization have been discussed. The model and algorithm have the following properties: rapid, flexible and feasible.

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