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EAST-CITIES

EAST-CITIES

In order to understand urban-rural gradients, new methods of deciphering settlement patterns are required.

About the Project

The researchers of this international project want to develop new approaches for sustainable urban development that are based on a better understanding of regional forms of settlement at the transition from city to country and their interactions.

Project Information

Funding body:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

  • Funding period: 2019 - 2025

Partners:

  • TU Braunschweig: Research focus "City of the Future", Lower Saxony Research Center for Vehicle Technology (NFF)
  • Leibniz University Hannover: L3S Research Center
  • Tongji University Shanghai, China
  • GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences, Mannheim
  • Qingdao City, China
  • German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), Sino-German Ecopark, Energy Design Shanghai
  • Chinese German University College (CDHK)

International Cooperation

The German project team consists of three research clusters: Members of the research focus City of the Future of the TU Braunschweig, the Lower Saxony Research Center Vehicle Technology and the L3S Research Center of the Leibniz University Hannover. There is also a project team in China made up of scientists from Tongji University Shanghai and other Chinese partners.

Approach and Project Goal

The interdisciplinary EAST-CITIES research team from Tongji University Shanghai, the Technical University of Braunschweig, Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) and GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences are concentrated together with partners in China on the holistic development of “medium-sized” urban regions with up to 10 million inhabitants.

The scientists want to develop interdisciplinary strategies to counteract the undesirable social, economic and ecological effects of current urbanization patterns. To this end, the research project brings together the know-how for the diverse, complex, cross-scale and cross-sectoral challenges. Among other things, sustainable architecture and urban planning, sustainable mobility in urban regions and resource management, urban production and agriculture.

Contact

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Vanessa Carlow

Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU)
Pockelsstraße 3
38106 Braunschweig
Tel.: 0531 391-3537
E-Mail: eastcities(at)tu-braunschweig.de

 

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eastcities.org

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