Aims

Project goals

The goal of this project is the development of a concept for the acquisition of dynamic processes in fast growing urban areas and megacities. The so far developed concept is supposed to contribute to achieve a controllability of the urban development in highly dynamic agglomeration areas.

The reference medium water and respectively the vulnerability of the complex system megacity as to the resource water takes centre stage in the analysis. In view of a sustainable handling with water resources examinations on the impact of mega-urbanisation on water will be carried out on the micro level (urban unit).
In a further step the urban units will be classified and generalised and then transferred by means of the numerical model to the city as a whole to

• be able to give evidence on the potential development of the city
  
• check the concept of urban units concerning its transferability from micro to macro level
  
• transfer the model and urban units to other mega-urban areas.
  

Sub-goals of the Department for Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology

• structural analysis of the Pearl Delta River relating to the resource water
  
• differentiation of the city’s morphology into manageable units
  
• definition and classification of city building blocks
  
• analysis of interaction between informal socio economic and socio cultural processes and formal city structures and water cycles
  
• presentation of the vulnerability of the system of the megacity as a whole in relation with the resource water
  
• development of the numerical model