Between Abundance and Constraints: The Natural Resource Equation of Asia’s Diverging, Higher-Income City Models
This paper investigates how natural resource conditions impact the physical development of cities and how, once built, the urban spatial structure leads to different patterns of resource use. The point of departure for this research is the common “resource urbanisms” assumption that cities are direc...
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| author | Philipp Rode Alexandra Gomes Muhammad Adeel Fizzah Sajjad Andreas Koch Syed Monjur Murshed |
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| description | This paper investigates how natural resource conditions impact the physical development of cities and how, once built, the urban spatial structure leads to different patterns of resource use. The point of departure for this research is the common “resource urbanisms” assumption that cities are directly affected by the availability and costs of natural resources, and that in turn, different urbanisms result in substantial differences in resource use and consequent impact on the environment. Considering extreme and divergent, higher-income urban models of Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Singapore, the paper focusses on two resources, land and energy, and the case of building cooling and transport energy demand. The research uses a mixed methods approach which includes qualitative methods such as expert interviews, analysis of planning documents and historic planning decisions, alongside quantitative methods such as remote sensing, GIS and data analysis and energy modelling. The paper suggests that land availability is a major driver of urban form while energy prices may play a secondary role. It also finds that urban form-induced energy efficiencies for transport and cooling energy diverge in the four cities by a factor of five and two, respectively. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-edd52e455e4341069f860602935f58992023-11-20T19:25:38ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2020-10-0191142610.3390/land9110426Between Abundance and Constraints: The Natural Resource Equation of Asia’s Diverging, Higher-Income City ModelsPhilipp Rode0Alexandra Gomes1Muhammad Adeel2Fizzah Sajjad3Andreas Koch4Syed Monjur Murshed5LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UKLSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UKInstitute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS29JT, UKLSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UKEuropean Institute for Energy Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, GermanyEuropean Institute for Energy Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, GermanyThis paper investigates how natural resource conditions impact the physical development of cities and how, once built, the urban spatial structure leads to different patterns of resource use. The point of departure for this research is the common “resource urbanisms” assumption that cities are directly affected by the availability and costs of natural resources, and that in turn, different urbanisms result in substantial differences in resource use and consequent impact on the environment. Considering extreme and divergent, higher-income urban models of Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Singapore, the paper focusses on two resources, land and energy, and the case of building cooling and transport energy demand. The research uses a mixed methods approach which includes qualitative methods such as expert interviews, analysis of planning documents and historic planning decisions, alongside quantitative methods such as remote sensing, GIS and data analysis and energy modelling. The paper suggests that land availability is a major driver of urban form while energy prices may play a secondary role. It also finds that urban form-induced energy efficiencies for transport and cooling energy diverge in the four cities by a factor of five and two, respectively.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/9/11/426urbanismurban formbuilding typologytransportinfrastructurecooling energy |
| spellingShingle | Philipp Rode Alexandra Gomes Muhammad Adeel Fizzah Sajjad Andreas Koch Syed Monjur Murshed Between Abundance and Constraints: The Natural Resource Equation of Asia’s Diverging, Higher-Income City Models Land urbanism urban form building typology transport infrastructure cooling energy |
| title | Between Abundance and Constraints: The Natural Resource Equation of Asia’s Diverging, Higher-Income City Models |
| title_full | Between Abundance and Constraints: The Natural Resource Equation of Asia’s Diverging, Higher-Income City Models |
| title_fullStr | Between Abundance and Constraints: The Natural Resource Equation of Asia’s Diverging, Higher-Income City Models |
| title_full_unstemmed | Between Abundance and Constraints: The Natural Resource Equation of Asia’s Diverging, Higher-Income City Models |
| title_short | Between Abundance and Constraints: The Natural Resource Equation of Asia’s Diverging, Higher-Income City Models |
| title_sort | between abundance and constraints the natural resource equation of asia s diverging higher income city models |
| topic | urbanism urban form building typology transport infrastructure cooling energy |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/9/11/426 |
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