Cooperation and Competition Between Cities: Urban Development Strategies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfa Shen
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Cooperation And Competition

Moving Forward Together: An Introduction

Global Cities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gottlieb ◽  
Simon Ng
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Goods Movement ◽  
Quality Water ◽  
Policy Institute

This chapter serves as an Introduction to the book. It discusses the book’s origins and the connections between the authors and their respective organizations – the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute and Civic Exchange. It describes how Los Angeles and Hong Kong and several Chinese cities such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou have emerged as global cities, the urban development strategies they have pursued, and the urban environmental challenges they face. It answers the question, why a book about Los Angeles and Hong Kong and their connection to China and identifies for all three places the six urban environmental areas that will be analyzed – ports and goods movement, air quality, water supply and water quality, the food environment, transportation, and open and public space.

Urban Development Strategies of City Centers: The Case of Rafah City, Palestinian Territories

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Omar S. Asfour ◽  
Samar Abu Ghali
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
City Center ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
The City ◽  
Commercial Center

City centers worldwide are perceived as essential parts of the city, where city memories are preserved and its identity is expressed. They are planned to satisfy the functional requirements and pleasurable qualities of the city. Under the accelerating urbanization of the modern city, several challenges face these centers including demographic, economic, and environmental challenges. This requires a continuous and incremental urban development process based on clear strategy and action plans. Thus, this study focuses on urban development strategies of city centers, with a focus on Rafah city located in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories. The geographic location of this city near the Palestinian-Egyptian borders makes it a promising commercial city at local and regional levels. Thus, the current situation of Rafah city center has been analyzed, and several development strategies have been proposed. This has been done through a field survey based on observation and a questionnaire directed to city center users. It has been found that there is a great potential of Rafah city center to be developed as a commercial center. In this regard, several strategies and required actions have been proposed in the fields of transportation, environmental quality, shopping activities, investment opportunities, and visual perception.

Game Mechanics as Thinking Mechanisms for Urban Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-251
Author(s):  
Teodora Constantinescu ◽  
Oswald Devisch ◽  
Georgi Kostov
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Game Mechanics ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

We witness a growing interest from urban designers in technology to understand cities as complex systems. However, more than often, the use of such technologies is a one-way knowledge generation, meaning that the urban designer is the one benefiting the most. Serious games have the ability to create concepts that lead to a better understanding of the issues that arise in urban development, improving society's implication in the process. This chapter addresses the potential of serious game mechanics to produce mutual transfer of knowledge and solutions able to enhance urban development strategies. Serious games can be one possible answer to motivate citizens and create social awareness and appropriation. Discussing the City Makers game prototype, authors underline the advantages of game mechanics as thinking mechanisms in improving urban development dynamics.

E-Government Development in Nanhai City, China

2011 ◽  
pp. 511-516
Author(s):  
Y. Yongling
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Application ◽  
National Information ◽  
The City

Nanhai is a small city which belongs to Foshan City (a district can also be called a city in some cities of China) and lies in the central part of Guangdong province. It is in the hinterland of Pearl River Delta, close to Hong Kong and Macau. It was in 1995 that the city began to develop e-government. In September of 1996, it became one of the first cities that started to operate the Internet in China. Since 1999, the city had transferred into the period of Internet application. It became the national experimental field of an informalization process in 2000 and of an e-government application project and national information security project in 2001. However, since 2002, lots of problems have been appearing due to overemphasis on the construction of an information infrastructure and noticeable projects. Chinese e-government has been at the stage of a realistic period, with data shared among departments since 2000. Some weaknesses of the appraised projects have been appearing because of short service for urban development and the requirements from the city administration. Therefore, this case is just a description of the periodical success and would be a problematic case of the process of Chinese e-government.

Fostering the Planning and Implantation of Innovation Habitats by the Knowledge Based Urban Development Approach (Fostering the Planning of EI by the KBUD Approach)

2015 ◽  
Vol 737 ◽  
pp. 889-895
Author(s):  
Márcia Regina Krama
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Innovation Policies

The motivation for this work emerges from the current awareness for planning and implementation of innovation habitats aligned with urban needs. This research analyzes the contributions of knowledge based urban development approach (KBUD) to foster innovation policies aligned to urban development strategies focusing on innovation habitats. The result is a set of assertions which will compose a theoretical-conceptual model.

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