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,...

Landscape into Urbanism: Integrating landscape as an urban infrastructure broadening functional possibilities with reviewing the planning framework of Changxing, China

This is a personal graduation project under the studio of Complex Cities and Regional Planning in the spatial planning chair of Urbanism track in TUD. The motivation of exploring the theme as ‘Landscape into Urbanism’ comes from the increasingly emerging environmental risks globally in urban areas. As the medium between artificial urban...