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The unprecedented growth faced by the Chinese cities in the last decades entailed serious consequences: economic and social disparities, environmental crises, and demographic imbalances between the rural and the urban areas. These issues, together with a growing awareness of the intrinsic unsustainability of Chinese economic model, has stimulated debate on redefining the approach to urban development.
In this framework, Lishui, a minor municipality of Zhezjiang Province, launched the international competition Future ShanShui City. Dwellings in Lishui Mountains in 2020. In line with the main policies enacted at national level, this competition highlights the need of new spatial relations between urban and rural. This approach leads to a radical reconfiguration of the suburban spaces, which is giving rise to an unprecedent landscape where urban services are integrated in the countryside areas, and, vice versa, agriculture and environmental elements are part of the city.
The publication explores the ongoing processes of suburbanisation in Lishui Valley based on three years of design, research and teaching activities carried out by Politecnico di Torino and South China University of Technology since 2020. With a rich collection of original essays and projects, this book combines reflexive knowledge, critical imagination, and design experimentation to provide scenarios for Chinese suburban development.
Contents
4 The Tale of a Research Project
Suburbanization Processes in Rural China
The Lishui Valley
The Competition Future Shan-Shui City
The Suburban Valley as Ground for Teaching Activities
About this Book
References
36 Prosperous Lishui: Four Operational Spaces
Spaces for Agricultural Production
Dwelling on the Mountains
Facilities and System of Mobility
Ecological Reserve
100 Prosperous Lishui: Ten Site-specific Projects
Farming an Online World
The Hillside
Farmland in a Frame
Weak and Diffuse Facilities
The Floating Community
Living the Riversides
The Agricultural Hub
The Cultural Strip
Inhabiting the Mountain Clusters
Collecting Every Single Drop
158 Architecture for Suburban China by Gong Dong and Shida Liu
Introduction
In the Midst of Nature and the Human-made
Interconnection Between the Old and the New
A Translucent Interface of Air and Light
Concluding Remarks
176 Illustration Credits
177 Text Credits and Acknowledgments
178 About the Authors
