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The paradox of Chinese countryside between land consumption and rural exodus. Observations on spatial development of a rural village in the Fujian Province.

G. Semprebon;L. M. f. Fabris
2019-01-01
2019
Built Heritage Conservation in the Rural Vitalization
This manuscript focuses on the spatial change of housing production in post-reform rural China. Suggesting context-related design strategies, authors propose an investigation methodology based on on-field observations. Rural settlements face different critical challenges in the current framework of rapid transformation. In fact, cultural traditions and social values are threatened by the endless urbanization and controversial practices of land development. In particular, authors show how Chinese countryside is facing a paradoxical condition, consisting of a shrinkage in terms of agricultural land, rural population and abandoned buildings and in a simultaneous process of soil consumption. All this modifies deeply and shockingly the cultural and physical landscape developed over centuries of relative economic and social stability. An ordinary village in the Fujian Province has been chosen as an appropriate case-study to test new investigation methodologies for assessing the intensity of such phenomena and their implications on the built environment. Based on fifteen months of fieldwork, the collected data includes an on-site survey of almost three hundred housing buildings. The dataset is framed according to six parameters: age, height, technology, lineage, condition, and use level. Two patterns of change in housing construction – spot and diffusive – are analyzed. Even if the results portray a severe condition, some opportunities, rising from the availability of under-sued structures, emerge against the backdrop of a long-term vitalization process. The paper concludes highlighting such potentialities as important assets for the implementation of a context-related design strategy.
04.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno
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