Enabling the wild Be[ij]ing: Try-out for the future of hyper-density

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2006
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EWB is a direct attempt to deal with numerous uncontrolled urban emergences in Beijing; instead of the current stratifying process, it offers strategies for intensifying the dynamic density through enabling the massive subversive forces. In turn, EWB exposes the city's future of unprecedented three-dimensional congestion---a hyper-dense city. EWB respond to the all-encompassing wildness with an approach that merges two opposing concepts of urbanity into one: the top-down plan that treats developments as lockdown enclaves; the unregulated activities that flood the urban ground. It propagates a new urban process by using the vast developments as a framework to proliferate street commerce---instead of being parasitical, unregulated activities can weave into the rigid structure of existing residential blocks and disturb it like a virus infection. Once they reach the critical masses, the city will reinvent itself as an uninterrupted hyper-dense urban landscape capable of accommodating all manners of street life.

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Master of Architecture
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Architecture, Urban planning, Regional planning
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Wang, Shuo. "Enabling the wild Be[ij]ing: Try-out for the future of hyper-density." (2006) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17927.

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