Description
Borderland regions as an urban planning challenge Metropolis Shenzhen and its integration in the surrounding area Innovative design strategies for big scale planning
Hong Kong’s border with Shenzhen is dissolving. By 2047, the border will likely not exist. Integration with the Mainland will remove distinctions created by the “One Country Two Systems” policy. The uncertainty surrounding what will happen has created anxiety relating to law, identity, freedom of speech, and voting rights. Caught in this debate is the Frontier Closed Area, a 1951 undeveloped buffer zone of estuaries, fish farms, forests, villages and military posts. In contrast, Shenzhen, has exploded into a metropolis of 15 million plus. The book explores this unique border ecology. Design strategies inserted within this ecology promote alternate forms of development. The example widens the discourse on borders to raise critical issues that impact the contemporary city.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Border Ecologies / Bolchover, Joshua
Timeline / Hung, Matthew
Shen Kong: Cui Bono? / O’Donnell, Mary Ann / Wan, Viola Yan
The Frontier Closed Area
Tactics
Tactical Framework / Hasdell, Peter
Enclaves and Codependency / Bolchover, Joshua
Inbetweeners / Bolchover, Joshua
Interstitial Infrastructure / Bolchover, Joshua
Scarred Landscapes / Bolchover, Joshua
Invisible Exchange / Hasdell, Peter
Village Alliances / Hasdell, Peter
Conclusion
Credits, Project Team, Image Credits, Colophon
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