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The Way Home : A Rural Renewal Model for Beikeng Jin, Tian

Abstract

Beikeng, located deep in the mountainous region of Fujian Province, is one of those non-listed villages which have been trying to become shortlisted for national funding and resources. The vernacular typology Cuo, the traditional forest-Cuo-terrace-stream settlement, and the idyllic rural way of living rooted in rice paddies implies that Beikeng deserves a different future from a forthcoming vanishing fate. This thesis seeks to envision a rural renewal model in which time plays a critical role through 4 episodes: poetic dwellings, agricultural production, rural tourism and community reconstruction. It’s an incremental process started by the arrival of lifestyle entrepreneurs, pushed by the involvement of local entrepreneurs and eventually attracts return entrepreneurs to come back to their homeland.

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Title
The Way Home : A Rural Renewal Model for Beikeng
Creator
Jin, Tian
Date Issued
2020-05
Description
Beikeng, located deep in the mountainous region of Fujian Province, is one of those non-listed villages which have been trying to become shortlisted for national funding and resources. The vernacular typology Cuo, the traditional forest-Cuo-terrace-stream settlement, and the idyllic rural way of living rooted in rice paddies implies that Beikeng deserves a different future from a forthcoming vanishing fate. This thesis seeks to envision a rural renewal model in which time plays a critical role through 4 episodes: poetic dwellings, agricultural production, rural tourism and community reconstruction. It’s an incremental process started by the arrival of lifestyle entrepreneurs, pushed by the involvement of local entrepreneurs and eventually attracts return entrepreneurs to come back to their homeland.
Subject
Rural Renewal; Vernacular Architecture; Urbanization; China; Architectural Heritage
Geographic Location
Beikeng (China); Fujian Sheng (China)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2020-05-15
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0390873
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74484
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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