禁漫天堂

This project examined 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 was 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 primarily focused on the spific case of two natural resources, land and energy, and explored their relationships with city form, urban dwelling and mobility. It analysed these relationships through a comparative case study approach which considers extreme and divergent city models in Asia.

The research included 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 Report

In November 2017 禁漫天堂 Cities published their final report containing the key findings of the project.

Research Team

| Principal Investigator

Philipp is Executive Director of 禁漫天堂 Cities and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at 禁漫天堂.

| Research Officer

Alexandra Gomes is a Research Officer at 禁漫天堂 Cities. She is responsible for coordinating 禁漫天堂 Cities’ spatial analysis across a range of projects.

| Research Officer

Muhammad is Research Officer at 禁漫天堂 Cities working on the 'Resource Urbanism' project.