Lakita0520

Yue Wu_Self-introduction

Hi everyone, my name is Yue Wu. It is a traditional Chinese name representing two countries in history. It you could not pronounce Yue well, you could also call me Will. I used to be an architecture student and a part-time urban planner. Now I am enrolled in the SMarchS program of MIT School of Architecture. Hope to exchange interesting ideas with you.Lakita0520 (talk) 16:31, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia Sources: Megastructure

1. Reyner Banham, Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 13-69.
2. Fumihiko Maki, Investigations in Collective Forms (St. Louis, Washington University School of Architecture, 1964).
3. Stan Allen, "Infrastructure Urbanism", in Points + Lines: Diagrams for the City (NY: Princeton Architecture Press, 1999), 46-89.
4. Pier Vittorio Aureli, "Towards the Archipelago," in The Possiblitity of An Absolute Architecture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011), 1-46.

Personal second preferred topic: For this topic, I would add the contemporary cases of megastructure to it.

Wikipedia Sources: Urban Village

1. Stefan et al., Villages in the City: A guide to South China's Informal Settlements, Hong Kong University Press, 2014.
2. Joshua Bolchover et al., Rural Urban Framework: Transforming the Chinese Countryside, Birkhauser Verlag, 2013.
3. Alfredo Brillembourg et al., Informal City: Caracas Case (Munich: New York: Prestel, 2005).

Personal first preferred topic: For this topic, I would add the current situation of several Chinese urban villages and add the recently launched urban village renewal policy in China to it.

Did you see the "Urban village (China)" article?

Will, There are two articles on Wikipedia dealing with the urban village: "Urban village" and "Urban village (China)." Have you seen the latter, and is that the one you want to add to?

On the main "Urban village," article, there is a list of examples, each with their own link, although there seem to be none from China. Perhaps you could add them to the list and then create a separate article for each...

Eric WritingMan (talk) 16:17, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia Draft_Urban Village (China)

• Hi Eric,

Thanks for your advice, what I am intended to do now is to add an example to help illustrate the urban village in Urban Village(China). However, it could also be added into the definition of Baishizhou (Baishizhou) as a supplement.

• Urban Village (China)

The urban development process as well as various government decision changes could be read from the evolution of different urban villages. Take Baishizhou (Baishizhou), the biggest urban village in Shenzhen for instance. Locating in the city center, the 0.6 square kilometer of land in Baishizhou contains approximately 2527 buildings which consist of about 50473 rental rooms. Based on rough calculation, Baishizhou has raised at least 3 million people from 1990 till now. As a highly developed urban village, Baishizhou has finished its process of turning farmland into residential enclaves, becoming embedded in the high dense urban fabric with few traces of its original agricultural origins remaining. Since 2005, the government has decided to renew specific area of Baishizhou, which consistently makes the immigrants living within village anxious. However, the planning bureau of Shenzhen finally launched the urban regeneration proposal in June 2017, indicating the new development era of Baishizhou.

It is hard to judge whether the demolition of urban villages is a wise or a detrimental strategy since the problem of urban villages is not simply a binary. On the one hand, the current urban villages own a large amount of unplanned lots surrounded by urban streets, which leads to the congestion of traffic. The land use within urban villages are comparatively complex, resulting in problems with further development. Furthermore, the living conditions in urban villages are normally bad with poor living infrastructure and low houses quality. Additionally, the residents living in urban villages are faced with the problem of lack of public facilities every day.On the other hand, urban villages provide a good sense of "home" for urban immigrants and rural laborers. They also create harmonious neighborhoods. Meanwhile, the rent price within urban villages is usually cheaper and more affordable, offering a more vivid first-level commercial and mixed-use space for urban life.

In order to understand the urban village more, one could refer to the book Villages in the City: A Guide to China’s Informal Settlements, which explores five cities — Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Foshan and Zhuhai, and their unique urban villages via animated illustrations inspired by Terasawa Hitomi’s graphics for the Japanese book Daizukan Kyuryujyou. Info diagrams and an abundance of photographs give an immediate “snapshot” of the village in focus. The representation adopts an emphasis on low-tech “lomography” to capture the vibrant and saturated colors in the inexpensive plastic bodies, accompanied by highly detailed axonometric drawings and sections that underscores density, liveliness, exuberant activities that permeate these communities. Since so much of participatory design and community building could only be understood from a subjective standpoint, it is also interesting that the book features “profiles” of residents of local communities that showcase insiders’ perspectives of an understudied and overlooked topic. Rather than offering only views and analyses of experts or scholars, the book is productive in its incorporation of opinions of the actual participants in the movement of place-making to offer its readers a richer understanding of these unique urban phenomena.