Interweaving fragments

Activating green-blue infrastructure in Pearl river delta, China

Student report (2019)

Authors

J.D. Bhatt Architecture and the Built Environment
O. Boudouaya Architecture and the Built Environment
E.M. Koskeridou Architecture and the Built Environment
Marina Mohamed Rani Architecture and the Built Environment
D. Ravichandrakumar Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

S.A. Read (supervisor 1)
D.A. Sepulveda Carmona Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
L.M. Calabrese Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
L. Qu Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Y. Tai (supervisor 1)
G. Bracken Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2019 Jahnavi Bhatt, Oumkaltoum Boudouaya, Eleni Maria Koskeridou, Marina Mohamed Rani, Dhushyanth Ravichandrakumar
Integration Fragmentation Urbanisation Globalisation The Greater Bay area Hong-Kong Green and Blue infrastructure
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Published Date

2019-7

Language

English

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Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The Greater Bay Area, known as the GBA, ultimately incorporates 11 main cities (consisting of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao SAR) as well as the municipalities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Huizhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing) into an urbanised population of over 70 million people. It represents a significant opportunity to shape the future of the Pearl River Delta region.

In the last decades, this region has experienced an unprecedented rise of urbanisation and a rapid economic growth positioning itself as the future centre of global economy. However, the uneven development has been the reason behind several environmental and socio-spatial challenges that threaten the future of this mega region. The research intends to comprehend these issues under the fragmentation perspective, by classifying and analysing the challenges within three main themes (Society, Economy and Environment) in three different scales. Furthermore, the research proposes that the integration of bio-physical infrastructures (Green and blue network) respecting the natural ecosystem and the delta conditions throughout the whole process of development and urbanisation, will help redefine the future of globalisation in the GBA. In order to achieve that, an explorative method using the ‘strips game’ was used as a method to produce a vision and urban scenarios on multiple scales providing functional and spatial distributions. This method was conducted in Hong Kong to give access to the feeling and environment in question.