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ABSTRACT BOOK OCTOBER 7 - 11 ecocity2019.com #Ecocity2019 Page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Academic Presentations .................................................................................................................................... 3 Academic Presentations – Monday, October 7, 2019.....................................................................................4 Academic Presentations – Tuesday, October 8, 2019 ...................................................................................44 Practitioner Presentations ...............................................................................................................................78 Practitioner Presentations – Wednesday, October 9, 2019 ..........................................................................79 Practitioner Presentations – Thursday, October 10, 2019 ..........................................................................122 Practitioner Presentations – Friday, October 11, 2019 ...............................................................................176 Poster Presentations – October 9, 10, and 11 ............................................................................................204 Practitioner Workshops .................................................................................................................................246 Practitioner Workshops – Monday October 7, 2019 ..................................................................................247 Practitioner Workshops – Tuesday October 8, 2019 ..................................................................................262 Field Trips ....................................................................................................................................................... 278 Field Trips – Monday, October 7, 2019 .......................................................................................................279 Field Trips – Tuesday, October 8, 2019 .......................................................................................................285 Author Index .................................................................................................................................................. 293 Page 2 ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS Page 3 Academic Presentations Academic Presentations – Monday, October 7, 2019 AC.01A.01 A Sustainable City Paradigm to Amman City, Jordan: Criteria and Indicators of Efficiency Professor Ahmad Al-zoabi1 1American University of Madaba, Amman 11194, Jordan Amman City, one of the fastest grown cities in the World, is moving towards sustainable city planning. It has gone through unprecedented growth from 5000 inhabitants to current estimate of 4 million people. The debate on Amman’s sustainable city form has reached new horizons, and moved from theoretical perspectives and visions towards implication. This paper aims to characterize a sustainable city paradigm to Amman city as a framework through which the sustainable city can be visualized. It traces and reorganizes the different debates, scenarios, and visions concerning the sustainable city form. The paradigm consists of three proposed components; parameters, criteria and indicators. This paper is mainly focused on the characterization of the criteria and indicators of efficiency parameter as a major strand of sustainable city form. The paradigm is a flexible framework or a vision, out of many others, and, thus, disputable. It provides a flexible framework for officials and planners to work through and vision Amman city version of sustainability. When the paradigm applied, the indicators resemble an instrument of criteria, and hence, efficiency s fulfillment. Once being characterized as a whole, the proposed paradigm is by no means a static model. Rather, it is a dynamic conceptual device to sensitize us to vision of what the sustainable city might become. This paper provides an approach to investigate the applicability of the sustainable city paradigm on Arabic-Islamic cities. Keywords: sustainable city, sustainable city paradigm, efficiency, Amman City, Jordan. Page 4 AC.01A.02 Governing Eco-cities in China: The Political Ecology of Guangming Eco-city Initiative, Shenzhen Mr. Ying Xu1, Professor Meekam Ng1 1Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University Of Hong Kong, Shatin, China Human society and nature have experienced “a great transformation” for the last two centuries. In response to various threats, from global changes to local environmental and social issues, a discourse of ecological transition has prevailed in the urban sector internationally. As a possible prescription, modern eco-city initiatives have emerged and evolved in the last three decades. However, arguably, the underlying philosophy of eco-city has existed in human history for a much longer time. From the literature, the essence of eco-city is to nurture a harmonious human-nature relationship to pave ways towards “a paradigm shift” in urban development. China is acting actively to find alternative urban development patterns and solutions to the challenges it is facing. In recent five-year plans, President Xi’s promotion of “ecological civilization” has occupied high positions in government agenda at multiple geographical levels. There are plenty of relevant policies or schemes about eco-city development, from national to municipal levels. Yet, there seems to be great gaps between policy discourses and actual practices, often derailed by socio-political processes that shape and reshape the urban environment. We have witnessed many “eco-cities” falling into swamps of technocracy, new enclosure movements, entrepreneurialism, or monopoly controlled by political will. Eco-city is indeed a political concept repleted with power-laden governance questions. Inspired by literature of Urban Political Ecology (UPE), we will use UPE as a critical theoretical lens to decompose and interrogate the governance of eco-city in China. A representative case at the urban district level is closely studied, that is, Guangming District in Shenzhen, which is constantly regarded as the testbed and pioneer in this field. We would draw specifically on the history of socio-political struggles around realizing eco-city in Guangming. Through the last 15 years, there are several significant episodes of the utopian-efforts to envision, plan and construct an eco-city there. Within this paper, we suggest that the urban political ecology of eco-city, like all other socionatural processes, is produced through an amalgamation of discursive- constructions and ideological-practices, physical-designing, institutional-restructuring and culture-practices. Meanwhile, new forms of knowledge, understanding, and political-will must be realized in order to collectively tackle problems, reshaping contemporary urban landscape. Through this critical lens, we also seek to articulate the contradictions produced through the synthesis of nature and society, as well as who benefits and who suffers from local urban environmental metabolism. It is necessary to go beyond discussing “eco-city” as just another, in a long list of “urban-gimmicks”. Page 5 AC.01A.03 Sustainable Hyper-Density City Design, Connect, Conserve, and Cultivate, --- -a Case Study in Singapore, Asia Assistant Professor Chao Yuan1, Miss Ayu Sukma Adelia1, Mr Guodong Wu1, Miss Shuangyang Liu1, Mr Aloysius Lian 1National University of Singapore, , Singapore Issues and Needs: Land-scarcity is one of the biggest challenges in Singapore, as one of the world’s high-density mega cities. To address this issue, Singapore’s government has reclaimed the new land from the seas. Over the past two centuries, Singapore’s land area has expanded by 25%, and in the future, land reclamation will continue to meet the demands of urbanization. However, each reclamation from the sea destroys an underwater habitat by building over or enclosing a body of water. The key challenge in front of us is clear. On one hand, there is the unstoppable human desire for development; on the other hand, there is limited carrying capacity of our nature and cities. As architects, we need to consider how to increase the urban density to use natural resources more efficiently and decrease the demand and impact on natural resources/ecosystem. This study introduced a case study at Singapore, in which a system of systems was applied to redevelop an existing industrial area, which is a reclaimed land along Singapore’s western coast line, to a sustainable and livable high density urban areas. 4 task-oriented systems (self-sufficiency, social inclusivity, nature & ecosystem, and reciprocity) interweave with each other to engender an integrated and holistic network. Goals and Approach: In this case study, we set the design goal as connection, conservation, and cultivation to address above mentioned issues. Regarding connection, it is to connect people by offering inclusive and accessible community space to all age groups. More importantly, the design aims to connect human society, ecosystem, and microclimates. passive design strategies are proposed to take advantage of wind, sun, water, and wildlife. Thirdly, it is to connect the new high density development with the existing mainland and engage the surrounding urban context in a sustainable way. In terms of conservation, this design aims to decrease the impact and demand on natural ecosystem. A pillar-podium-tower-sky bridge structure is proposed to avoid reclaiming the waterbody using large footprint of concrete.