Tomorrow rural land

vitalise Chinese idle homestead land through long-stay rural leisure development

Master thesis (2019)

Authors

S. Chen Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

L. Qu Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
S. Nijhuis Landscape Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 2)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2019 Simin Chen
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Published Date

03-07-2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The rapid urbanisation process in China has caused the emergence of much idle rural land, especially homestead land, which constitutes a huge waste of land resource and brings about several social problems. Nowadays, Chinese government has realised this problem and has put forward institutional intervention to rural land, and encourage to use rural leisure development mode to vitalize it. However, spatial planning strategies and design principles are not linked well with on-going institutional adjustment, and relative research is lacking and lagging. From the perspective of rural leisure industry, based on the idle homestead land phenomenon, this project intends to introduce 'long stay rural leisure' new development direction, and offer an adapted layers approach methodology, with sustainable nature-rural-urban integrated strategy that connects urban system, natural system and rural system. This project is aimed to vitalise Chinese idle homestead land in the future, furtherly, to discuss a development path for tomorrow rural land.