Urban Village - Joshua Bolchover - Palimpsest Urbanism

Palimpsest Urbanism

Joshua Bolchover

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Dormitory workers’ housing from the Mao era in Tangtou, Baishizhou. Photo: Joshua Bolchover.

Urban Village
January 2018










Notes
1

Tangtou was set up by the state during Mao’s Great Leap Forward (1958–62).

2

The East River Waterworks project continues to provide Hong Kong’s potable water.

3

Frank Dikötter. Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62. (London, New York, Berlin and Sydney: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010).

4

Mary Ann O’Donnell, “Becoming Hong Kong, Razing Baoan, Preserving Xin’an: An Ethnographic Account of Urbanization in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone,” Cultural Studies 3–4, 15 (2001): 419–443.

5

George C. S. Lin and Samuel P. S. Ho, “The State, Land System, and Land Development Processes in Contemporary China,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95, 2 (June, 2005): 411–436.

6

Building codes have evolved with Shenzhen’s urban boom, so the cheng zhong cun are not the only neighborhoods where building stock can be retrospectively considered substandard.

7

Mary Ann O’Donnell, “Path Breaking: Constructing Gendered Nationalism in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.” Positions 7, 2 (1999): 343–375.

8

Jonathan Bach, “‘They come in Peasants and Leave Citizens’: Urban Villages and the Making of Shenzhen, China.” Cultural Anthropology 25, 3 (2010): 421-458.

9

This compensation package has to provide for the income generated through the land-use-rights and for the building based on an area rate.

10

Mary Ann O’Donnell, “Laying Siege to the Villages: Lessons from Shenzhen,” Open Democracy (March 28, 2013), .

11

Helen F. Siu, “Socialist Peddlers and Princes in a Chinese Market Town,” American Ethnologist 16, 2 (1989): 195–212.

An earlier version of this essay was first published as “Urban Village: Enclave Urbanism” by Joshua Bolchover and Mary Ann O’Donnell in Joshua Bolchover and John Lin, Rural Urban Framework: Transforming the Chinese Countryside (Birkhauser, 2014). The research into Tantou and Bashizhou was initiated as a joint project with Mary Ann O’Donnell in November 2012.

Urban Village is collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the 7th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) within the context of its theme, "Cities, Grow in Difference."