Deconstructing a Landscape Out-of-Place: the Afterlife of Rural Hollowing

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Title
Deconstructing a Landscape Out-of-Place: the Afterlife of Rural Hollowing
Description
This thesis explores declining villages in the process towards rural hollowing. Rural hollowing, this phenomenon exhibits increasingly in depopulating rural settlements, results from fading infrastructural services, disintegrating population structure, and incremental land abandonment. The project emphasizes against the current capitalist-oriented tourism scheme and proposes landscape architecture as a medium to remediate the disintegrating village by recognizing these rural villages’ declining reality: by reintegrating its public service infrastructure and formulating a sustainable farming economy. This thesis looks at a village in rural Fujian, China and explores landscape architecture’s agency in rebuilding abandoned rural spaces in reformulating village composition and creating a place for a community that is smaller but in a life that is still rich in culture.
Creator
Wu, Ziyuan Zoe
Subject
Agriculture
Chinese Villages
Public Infrastructure
Rural Hollowing
Rural Migration
Tourism
Landscape architecture
Urban planning
Design
Contributor
Pérez-Ramos, Pablo
Date
2022-10-14T03:57:35Z
2022
2022-10-13
2022-11
2022-10-14T03:57:35Z
Type
Thesis or Dissertation
text
Format
application/pdf
application/pdf
Identifier
Wu, Ziyuan Zoe. 2022. Deconstructing a Landscape Out-of-Place: the Afterlife of Rural Hollowing. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
29397468
https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37373350
Language
en