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Rui QIAN

Rui QIAN

Cambridge, MA, US

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The Revitalization of Yihe Riverfront Belt, Linyi, Shan Dong, China

In the era abounding with the aggressive urbanization and globalizations, the way we human responding to the nature has been enjoying increasing controversies with a confirmed necessity and significance, especially in China.China is now in the stage of the reconstruction of the urban and rural form, consequently with the challenges rooted in rapid urbanizations.
1) Useless Infrastructures - Making crucial infrastructures only in name of official achievements or big events indeed served as one of the severest obstacle for the sustainability. we lacking a proposal for future utilizations.
2)Aggression of Expansion - Over 300 cities in China intend to be global cities in the upcoming decades, read in their governmental master plan.
3)None recognition - The highest emergency to cope with is the confused characters of a city at any level. As this powerful and aggressive will goes, cities, taking Linyi for example in this paper, located in less developed area, begin to copy and destructively realize a forged city, in the way of abusing the nature, out-of-scaled cityscape, tedious waterfront with cold concrete embankment, and culturally un-identified totem landscape, which are all the murderer of a city. 

 
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Status: Under Construction
Location: Linyi, CN
My Role: Team Leader, and Chief Design
Additional Credits: Director: Qi DING
Colaborator: Wei KOU, Gengchen TIAN, Hongtao XIE

 
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