Spatial Transformation Mechanism in
Rapid Rural Urbanization Process
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The Urban Landscape of Pearl River Delta as a Case Study
PhD candidate: Xiong Liang
Promoter: Prof.dr.ir. Han Meyer
Daily supervisor: Steffen Nijhuis
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Architecture
Department of Urbanism
U-LAB
Pearl River Delta
Southeast China
China
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What if you built the whole mass of western Europe in
20
years?
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What if
400 million
farmers then moved in?
Pearl River:
Basin 425,700 km
2, Length 2055 km
River dominated
Wave dominated Tide dominated
Pearl River Delta:
Area 42,831.5 km
21 NL
Inhabitant 47.9 Million
3 NL
Pearl River Delta
The population of PRD in 1990, 2000 and 2010
Inhabitants
1.5 millions /yr
Buildup area
82.1 km
2/yr
Urbanization phenomena
Rural Urbanization:
Industrialization and urbanization focused in
rural areas.(Lin, 1997).
Land use and cover change between 1989 and 1997 in PRD Source: Weng (2002)
Sub Question:
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Which spatial elements involved?
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How the involved elements interact?
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What is the historical spatial transformation mechanism?
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What are the difference between the past and current mechanism?
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How the mechanisms change?
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What are the difference with other urbanized deltas?
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What are the casual factors make them different?
Research Question
How the urban landscape
developed in the rapid rural
urbanization process of PRD?
Key Words: Rural Urbanization, Urban Landscape, Pearl River Delta, Design
Research, Typological Research, Spatial Transformation Mechanism,
Layer Approach
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Occupation
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Infrastructure
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Landscape
0
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Strategic river cross.
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No settlements in islands.
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Delta not affected by
1300
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Strategic region
position.
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Settled on
islands.
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Settlement
affect the
delta.
2000
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Spread without landscape.
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large reclamation lands.
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Settlement dominated the
Dike system 1279- 1945
Sustainable development
Understand nature,
Manage nature & ourselves
Fight
Overcome
1300
1990
2006
Consume
(Meyer, Nijhuis,2010)
