Farming Guangming: Integrating agricultural landscape and new town development for the “Green City” Guangming in Shenzhen

Hundreds of new towns are being built or planned today in China, which mostly remove the existing agricultural landscape. The study is motivated by a very simple question: instead of being eaten up by new towns, can agricultural landscape perform more actively in the process of development? I pick Guangming, a new town being built in Shenzhen,...

Hong Kong - Shenzhen Metropolitan Park Development: A sustainable and mutual benefit development plan for the cross-border area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen

This final thesis report is a specific plan and research project of the cross-border area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen metropolis. The aim is looking for a sustainable and mutual benefit development strategy of cross-border area between the metropolitan area which is under highly urbanization and conurbation process. The main approach is using...