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,...

IJsselmonde regional park: A regional park design as strategy for the development of the fragmented open space at IJsselmonde

Aim of thesis In this thesis, a regional park design is used as a strategy for the development of leftover open space at IJsselmonde, as a solution to the spatial and indentity problems at IJsselmonde. Findings/conclusion Using a landscape approach, regional park IJsselmonde is a park that is designed to recover the relationship between the city...