The Future of Ulaanbaatar

Kolloquium "The Future of Ulaanbaatar: Key Urban Actors, Invisible Power and Visible Urbanism".
During the last two decades, Ulaanbaatar is experiencing rapid urbanization. Influenced by nomadic pastoralist and socialist history, as well as liberal ideology and free market economy, the capital’s urban society is continuously seeking concepts between development and disruption, progress and chaos. This presentation focuses on diverse levels, including urban planning, implementation and actual changes at the example of the residential micro-district No. 13 during the last three decades. Research findings indicate that the complexity in present urbanism is caused by new paradigms of property, ownership and individual freedom, lack of information transparency and incomplete urban legislation, but also the invisible power of corruption and poorly regulated competition. Referent: Amgalan Sukhbaatar