Deciphering the Congestion Paradigm in Shenzhen-Hong Kong. Potentials of Rural Designology for Urban-Rural Symbiosis

This article combines Dr. Guo Yi's thesis on the multidimensional analysis of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong urban area with Gerardo Semprebon's framework for rural design, envisioning a more symbiotic urban-rural future. The former interprets the congested phenomena of diverse sites in physical, environmental, economic, cultural, social, psychological, and temporal dimensions, revealing the metropolitan area as the conflicted core of societal-metabolic contradictions. The latter theorizes rural areas as sources of internal wisdom, embedded variability, and untapped potential for regeneration, offering a complementary perspective on decoding metropolitan asymmetrical exploitation. This study speculates on digitally enhanced strategic interventions in the peripheral zones of the Greater Bay Area, advocating for the reevaluation of rural cosmologies and metabolic wisdom as a comprehensive methodology guiding planetary sustainable development.