A case study of typical redevelopment projects of Huangpu River Waterfront in Shanghai is analyzed to figure out the difference between landscape-restoration oriented projects and urban-exploitation projects.
Just like the banking crisis, the problem of botched urban development has long been encouraged by a system that is open to exploitation and all too susceptible to careless regulation.
Tackling urban violence and exploitation Efforts are being made to tackle violence across urban areas around the globe.
Constantinople, in particular, influenced urban growth and the exploitation of agricultural frontiers.
New were the linkage of these demands with the grievances of restive urban groups also protesting exploitation and disenfranchisement and their formulation as an agenda of social reform on the principle of Christian communitarianism.
With the increasing exploitation of Urban Underground Space (UUS) increasingly in the cities of developing countries as result of urbanization, the near-surface UUS cannot satisfy the space capacity requirement.
In the last decade, there has been an extensive use of shallow geothermal exploitations in urban environments.
But the practice of urban exploration has now splintered under the weight of relentless media attention, crackdowns by authorities and attempts at marketing exploitation – reforming along divergent lines.
With nearly 10 years of large-scale construction of Shanghai subway network, the drive of expo 2010, and also the pressing needs of space extension for urban regeneration and modernization, the exploitation of underground space in Shanghai has been greatly advanced.
As CI's Olivier Langrand warns, "Forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate to give room to pastures, agricultural land, mineral exploitation and sprawling urban areas, but by doing so we are destroying our own capacity to survive".
Poverty and marginalization are increasing in many urban areas, and violence and exploitation is often most apparent in cities.
