Courtyardism: A Vision for a More Balanced Urban Future in the Greater Bay Area by Wang Weijen Architecture

Located in one of many fastest-developing regions over the previous decade—the southern a part of China, together with Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area—city development has been pushed by an awesome wave of commercial ambition. Tasks right here are sometimes designed for optimum density, peak, and effectivity, leading to developments of huge scale that may simply span a number of acres. Prioritizing transit-oriented development, these complexes ceaselessly take the type of sprawling malls constructed straight above main transportation hubs. Designed to disorient and delay foot visitors to encourage financial actions, these mega-structures have develop into commonplace in cities like Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

Whereas this typology of megastructures provides clear benefits—financial effectivity, excessive improvement returns, and comfort for transit customers—it nearly invariably ignores its city context and atmosphere. These developments usually flip a blind eye, intentionally so, to their environmental footprint and the city’s walkability. At such overwhelming scales, the human strolling expertise is diminished, if not outright uncared for. Pedestrians develop into interiorized—trapped inside the insulated world of those complexes.

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