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The project is a joint program of Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and the Urban Environment, Department of Urbanism; The Polythecnic University of Hong Kong PolyU Design; and supported by the International Forum of Urbanism [IFoU]... The emergence of ‘mega' urban-scapes and their regional agglomeration into urbanised areas of over 70 million - at least an order of magnitude larger than has ever been planned before - has reframed many conventional challenges of the spatial planning agenda. With the mega region in formation, a new necessity emerges, that being the investigation of the dynamic, morphogenetic and ecosystemic properties specific to the local and regional conditions. The integration of eleven significantly sized cities and their corresponding metropolitan hinterlands, three special economic or administrative regions, three currencies, and different cultural groups into one urban regional entity is a complex undertaking. At present, aside from the..

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