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This dissertation, Study on Urban-village Reformation: the Reformation of Heyuan Block in Gangsha Village Shenzhen, China by Zhuang, Wei, 魏壯, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The Study on Urban-village Reformation 1 Abstract Urban-village is a specific phenomenon raised in China with the high speed urbanization process recent decades. The issues generated by urban-village have influenced the political, economic and social aspects of the whole city. To completely solve the urban-village problem a great deal efforts should be done including urban design aspect. The study will focus on researching the appropriate reformation approach to Gangsha village, a typical urban-village in Shenzhen city, and introducing solution addressing urban design issues. The study comprises four chapters to illustrate the contents from urban design issues study to the proposed design solution. The first chapter mainly discusses the background information, urban design issues and study methodology. Gangsha village was formerly a pure rural village before 1980's, and with the promotion of urbanization process became a typical urban-village after 1990. The physical environment was poor inside the village, such as irrational land use distribution, inharmonic building form and insufficient infrastructure system. For the larger contextual area, different urban fabric, low permeability and different building form make Gangsha village isolated from the surrounding area. Thus the objectives of the study are to change the opposite situation between the village and contextual area and to improve the physical environment and make the living more convenient in the village. If the objectives are realized, Gangsha village will become into a necessary portion of the whole district and the living environment will be more lovely and delightful. To fully integrate Gangsha village and surrounding area, the knowledge of general background and information of Central District, where Gangsha village is located, is necessary. As the heart of the Shenzhen, the Central District will be built a modern and international district representing the new city image. At the same time the best environment for various activities will be provided inside. The structure plan and land use distribution will do some impacts to the reformation project of Gangsha village. Then in the third chapter, the study focuses on researching urban-village reformation modes. Entire redevelopment mode, synthetic renovation and controlling mode are the three main reformation approaches. At the same time each reformation mode refers three dominating parties, the government, the developer and the village collectivity (including the original villagers). Thus there are totally nine approaches to urban-village reformation. Through analyzing two reformed urban-village, the synthetic renovation plus the government dominating mode could be recommendable to Gangsha village reformation. At last, a design solution will be presented. Meanwhile, government domination, marketing method, order promotion, consideration of all correlative aspects and sustainable development are main general principles for the Gangsha village MUD candidate: WEI Zhuang 9/24/2007 The Study on Urban-village Reformation 2 reformation. To address the issue of isolation from contextual area, firstly it is need to integrate the urban space and improve the infrastructure system. To improve community facility and public recreation space can solve the corresponding issues. For the large numbers of village houses synthetic renovation will be taken. Part of buildings

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