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Shrinkage amid Growth

In general, the project I am going to present has two parts, the first part was finished in my first master year (2020.05) and further improved during past days, while the second part is what I have been focused on during the thesis. together, they worked as a complete circle in the project. From the reality perspective, what caught my attention was the two opposite trends during urban development – growing and shrinking.      -The cities in growth nowadays, especially megacities, are facing huge challenges on housing shortages, transportation pressures, overpopulation issues etc. for centuries, while these problems are still unsolved? Why?     -The cities in shrinkage are in a totally different scenario, there is no housing shortages, no transportation pressures, no overpopulation issues, but why people are still leaving? My answer to these questions is that some parts of our societal system have been ‘unevolved’ for too long, such as the economical system. In this sci-fi project, I imagined the world after a catastrophe will be provided with a chance to reform……

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kth-298829
Date January 2021
CreatorsWANG, QI
PublisherKTH, Arkitektur
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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