Network to Investigate Sustainable Economic and Ecological models of Peripheral Urban Functional Units

我们建议建立一个由学术界、工业界和专业合作伙伴、政府机构和社区团体组成的网络，致力于研究城市外围功能单元的可持续经济发展问题。该网络的目的是确定在特大城市周边的城市单元中，将可持续经济发展和可持续生态目标结合起来所需要的条件。该网络将汇集领先的公司和一个新兴的跨学科研究小组，他们致力于研究、开发和测试理论框架、概念模型和实践指南，这些框架、概念模型和实践指南既可以在东滩部署，也可以在世界其他地方部署。伦敦帝国理工学院田中商学院的建筑环境创新中心与上海同济大学建筑与城市规划学院合作，将构成该提案的核心。他们的学术、工业和政府合作者将成为我们建立一个更大的传播和实施网络的基础。

We propose establishing a network of academics, industry and professional partners, governmental institutions, and community groups committed to research the issues of sustainable economic development for peripheral urban functional units. The aims of the network are to determine what conditions are necessary to combine sustainable economic development and sustainable ecological objectives in urban units on the periphery of mega-cities. The Network will bring together leading firms with an emerging, interdisciplinary group of researchers engaged in studying, developing and testing theoretical frameworks, conceptual models and practical guidelines that can be deployed both in Dongtan as well as similar developments elsewhere around the world. The Built Environment Innovation Centre at Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London in partnership with The College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University Shanghai, will form the nucleus of this proposal. Their academic, industry and governmental collaborators will form the basis from which we aim to build a larger dissemination and implementation Network.