Introduction

Urban development has been expanding into peripheral agricultural areas in Asian growing cities, which causes numerous serious environmental problems. Many Asian large cities are located on deltaic lowlands, characterized with a variable land-use mixture of urban housing and rice-dominant agricultural lands. Mono-functional zoning could not control this land-use variability, and could not handle emerging environmental problems. This project aims to develop urban-rural planning which is suitable for the deltaic Asian urban fringe.

Case study cities: Osaka-Wakayama (green), Manila (yellow), Bangkok (blue) and Tianjin (redj

Vision for the urban-rural planning in the deltaic Asian urban fringe (after Hara et al. 2010)

Project member

Funding

JSPS NEXT Program Green Innovation (GZ005, Feb.2011-Mar.2014)