The Dynamic City Foundation (DCF, 动态城市基金会) is a China based research and design institute focused on the rapid transformations of Asia's urban landscape. Spearheaded by Neville Mars, dedicated multi-disciplinary teams of urban researchers, social scientists, planners and architects engage in long-running projects that aim to provide better understanding and more effective planning tools for Asia's expanding cityscapes. The conceptual underpinning of DCF is based on the notion that urban growth as essentially evolutionary. This concept is presented first in the book 'The Chinese Dream - a society under construction' (010 Publishers, N. Mars and A. Hornsby, Rotterdam 2008).