The hukou system was implemented by the Chinese Government as a means to register each citizen as either Rural or Urban, effectively polarizing the populace into lower-class farmers and upper-class urban citizens, and resulting in the formation of an Urban Village. Urban Villages are rural villages that were enveloped by sprawling metropolises, detaching villagers from their agrarian source of the income. A census taken in 2000 revealed that 3.8 million rural-urban migrants were living in over 300 urban villages within Beijing. Unregulated and untouched by centralized urban planning and policy, these urban villages have become de facto independent enclaves of informality. As such, many now function as proletariat sponges, soaking up a ‘floating’ populace of rural workers (liudong renkou) to provide cheap labor in urban agglomerations. The proposed urban design project attempts to foster a symbiotic relationship between Urban and Rural citizens by using a productive landscape as an interface for exchange.
On Farming - Contents
BRACKET [on farming]
Post-Agricultural Speculations
Line 13 – Superlinearity
Performative Landscapes
Fructus Vegetabilis: Growing Profit in the War on Error
Nomadic Allotments: London’s Farming Future
Vertical Farming in Las Vegas? Beyond Pragmatism, Toward Desire
Living Tower: A Vertical Horse Stable for Luxor
Reforestation of Greenwood Farm: An Emergent Landscape and Intervention
AGER-AGRI
Factory-Farmed Architecture: You Are How You Eat
Farming [PARK]: Rail, Roadways, and Urban Form Today
Globalgaelisation
Notes Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism
Beyond Disney
Chia Mesa
Harvesting Space
Aquaculture Seascape Park
Precipitating a Productive Countryside: A Renewed Company Town Model
On Farming
The Building That Farms…
Recycling Takes Command
Your Town Tomorrow
Cash Crops, Energy Landscapes
HydroLoops: Mechanization and the Command Prompt
Farm Logic
GEOtube: Vertical Salt Deposit Growth System
45°50’8”N 119°41’57”W: Hybrid-Poplar Farm
The Productive Surface
Farm Plus: Hybrid Agricultural Landscapes
BLDG 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Building Energy Performance
Cloud Skippers
Learning from Salinas (Hopefully)
Landgrab City
Hydrating Luanda
The Catalog: From Ploughs to Clouds
Project::Farm
Seasoned Pasture: A Demonstration Range and Public Park
Food Matrix
What We Are Is What We Eat
Butter in the Mail: Experiments in an Epistolary Economy
Rethinking Urbanism in the Shrinking City of New Orleans
Ecologically Emergent Leisure Landscapes [EELLs]
Microcosmic Aquaculture