This book provides a multi-scale reading of the spatial elements in which the extensive urbanity in Yangtze River Delta is constructed, and from there an imagination of a new paradigm of urbanization.
The urbanization in Yangtze River Delta today is in need of a new interpretation and paradigm. The delta is a territory with city cores but it also has vast dispersed urbanization where the agricultural and non-agricultural activities and spaces are mixed and interlinked, a desakota (McGee, 1991). This book attempts to answer a basic question: what is the desakota in the Yangtze River Delta made of?
The research Horizontal Metropolis led by Prof. Paola Vigan? at EPFL, Switzerland focuses on the form of the contemporary city the fragmentary spatial condition and dispersed urbanity all over the world. The study on Yangtze River delta is part of its research frame.
Introduction.- Yangtze River delta and the discovery of a third space.- Elements: A case study of Tangqi.- Layers: Reading the territory.- Systems: Construction of a Utopia.- Conclusion.
Qinyi Zhang (1985, Hangzhou, China) is an architect and urbanist in Studio Paola Vigan? (before 2015 as Studio Secchi-Vigan?) since 2009. He is the leading designer and project manager responsible for important urban and landscape projects and exhibitions.
From 2018 to 2020, he was a post-doc researcher at the Lab-U and Habitat Research Center in EPFL, Lausanne, working on research projects including the Greater Geneva Consultation, and in charge of the preparation and management of the EPFL part of TOD-IS-RUR Transit Oriented Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Rural-Urban Regions a Marie SkBodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)InnovatilÓ%
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