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Harry den Hartog

272 Pages

ISBN 978-94-6366-744-9

Published: 2023-09-14

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Tensions and opportunities at Shanghai’s waterfronts Laboratories for Institutional Strategies toward Sustainable Urban Planning and Delta Design Transitions

Harry den Hartog
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How can the Global North oriented and welfare state rooted Sustainability Transitions theories be enriched with the Chinese and communist state rooted Ecological Civilization thinking that has been included in the Chinese constitution since 2007, to make it able to evaluate the making of the direct-controlled municipality Shanghai into an institutional frontrunner of sustainable transitions in urban planning and design with its prime waterfront as exemplary ‘urban lab’? Around this central...