A New Model of Cultivating Urbanism in China Revitalization of Peri Urban Riverfront via Productive Landscaping Processes, Linyi, China Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
In the era abounding with the aggressive urbanization and globalizations, the way we human responding to the nature has been enjoying increasing controversies with a confirmed necessity and significance, especially in China.China is now in the stage of the reconstruction of the urban and rural form, consequently with the challenges rooted in rapid urbanizations. 1) Useless Infrastructures - Making crucial infrastructures only in name of official achievements or big events indeed served as one of the severest obstacle for the sustainability. we lacking a proposal for future utilizations. 2)Aggression of Expansion - Over 300 cities in China intend to be global cities in the upcoming decades, read in their governmental master plan. 3)None recognition - The highest emergency to cope with is the confused characters of a city at any level. As this powerful and aggressive will goes, cities, taking Linyi for example in this paper, located in less developed area, begin to copy and destructively realize a forged city, in the way of abusing the nature, out-of-scaled cityscape, tedious waterfront with cold concrete embankment, and culturally un-identified totem landscape, which are all the murderer of a city.
These 3 major challenges provide designers with a newly defined context, also coming with opportunities. To address these challenges and coordinate with such opportunities, this paper is to introduce a new perspective, seeing the nature at loss through the eyes of the second nature rather than the dichotomous view. From such perspectives, urbanizations and the second nature can be defined as the mutual baseline to break through the restrictions from pan-urbanizations, which actually remind us revising landscape architecture and urban design in a critical view. It means another choice we can turn to, providing the contemporary urbanization with a cultural effective process, also eco-beneficial and implementation potential.
Further, a productive landscaping process will be conducted, from a counter-historical view, as the new media connecting the development of the economic and socio sequence, following a series of strategy frameworks, Inherit–Transformation–Integration, to realize the revitalization of the riverfront area in Linyi, a less developed city in China. Also we schemed to provide a new population flow type based on the schemes of the eco-restoration, accessibility, and place identity and so on; which address a new vision to the local people, farmers living by the Yihe River, that they can transform their social roles within their own homeland. They will participate in the job of the administrations via ongoing cultivating the farming land with a certain income from the municipal authorities. Besides, what we are caring about does not only refers to the final illustrations but the processes and procedures as well that what we proposed will work differently in every stage of this project to adjust the direction of this complicated systematic motion.
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[Qi DING] [China]
-dkding1975@hotmail.com [Lin`an LIU] [China] [Zhongguo ZHANG] [China] [Rui QIAN-Corresponding Author][China]-wilson11@126.com www.ifla2011.com