Project Details
Projekt
Governance in Time: Spatial Differentiation and Temporal Change of Urban Development and Redevelopment in a Context of Multiple Transitions and Informal Growth in the PRD
Applicant
Dr. Michael Waibel
Subject Area
Human Geography
Term
from 2008 to 2012
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 99387200
The main objective is to explore the causal relationships between multiple transitions, governance of urban development and redevelopment, and informality in a mega-urban region. The urban governance approach is focused on the policy of urban development and redevelopment due to its highly space-sensitive strategic importance and its relevance for the explanation of mega-urban development. Our project will apply interdisciplinary theoretical concepts to carefully selected case studies in different municipalities in the Eastern PRD and integrate them into a wider framework. It thereby aims at formulating models that blend the temporal and the spatial dimension. Our project will contribute to theoretical explanations of mega-urban development. The dimension of time accounts for the process character, context, and embeddedness of mega-urban developments in transition. The spatial impacts of transitional strategies and institutional change will be investigated. Their underlying forces can contribute to a better understanding of urban development patterns. Changing governance modes influence the scope and quality of informality and self-organization and are themselves influenced by the evolution of the formality/informality relation. Exploring the role of political re-arrangements in this context contributes to a better understanding of socio-spatial differentiation.
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