Tomorrow rural land

Tomorrow rural land: vitalise Chinese idle homestead land through long-stay rural leisure development

Chen, Simin (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)

Qu, Lei (mentor)
Nijhuis, Steffen (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

2019-07-03

The rapid urbanisation process in China has caused the emergence of much idle rural land, especially homestead land, which constitutes a huge waste of land resource and brings about several social problems. Nowadays, Chinese government has realised this problem and has put forward institutional intervention to rural land, and encourage to use rural leisure development mode to vitalize it. However, spatial planning strategies and design principles are not linked well with on-going institutional adjustment, and relative research is lacking and lagging. From the perspective of rural leisure industry, based on the idle homestead land phenomenon, this project intends to introduce 'long stay rural leisure' new development direction, and offer an adapted layers approach methodology, with sustainable nature-rural-urban integrated strategy that connects urban system, natural system and rural system. This project is aimed to vitalise Chinese idle homestead land in the future, furtherly, to discuss a development path for tomorrow rural land.

Chinese rural idle homestead land
Complex system
Long-term rent
Nature-rural-urban integration system
Long stay rural leisure

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Student theses

master thesis

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