Tag Archives: squatters
the second line: nantou checkpoint to zhongshan park
Walked with Emma Ma and her father, Mike along Shenzhen’s northern loop expressway (北环大道) from the Nantou Checkpoint to the northern entrance of Zhongshan Park. Our path followed the remains … Continue reading
handshake urbanity — xinqiang community
In 2003, Shenzhen initiated a sanitation beautification project called the “clean, smooth, peaceful project (净畅宁工程)”. The aim of the project was to clean up roads and gutters and trash and … Continue reading
another call for a housing boycott in shenzhen
Folks in Shenzhen continue to protest the price of housing. This time, an armless beggar wrote the boycott call on the chest of a Generation 90s young woman. The interesting … Continue reading
rubble
Gregory Bateson helped me learn to think about how human beings engage in (ultimately) self-destructive forms of competitive growth; Wendall Berry continues to inspire how I think about rural urbanization under … Continue reading
behind the cocoon
Went for a walk today in the reclaimed land behind the cocoon. Behind the construction walls and semi-tropical topiary, discarded objects, trashed seabed, and squatters constitute the anti-Shenzhen, which erupts … Continue reading
shit
As I have wandered the edges of Shenzhen and as those edges have shrunk to the narrow spaces between the city’s elegant tree-lined boulevards and some kind of wall, I … Continue reading
thinking food: images from the houhai overpass, 2002-2010
this post is a brief contextualiztion of china lab’s landgrab city exhibition for the shenzhen-hong kong biennale 2009. the exhibit draws attention to the the ways that cities are imagined … Continue reading
深大南区：the map is not the territory
the map Originally uploaded by maryannodonnell Once upon a time, this territory was ocean. There were oyster farms and fishing boats. And the people who lived here had single story … Continue reading
shenzhen garbalogy
coconuts this morning as i walked the edge of houhai i stumbled upon another former settlement, where the squatters’ housing and kitchens had been razed, but then reconstituted in even … Continue reading
of plants and smog
shenzheners are developing an environmental consciousness. indeed, the shenzhen 2030 development strategy calls explicitly for sustainable development. so now we encounter billboards to protect endangered species. the irony, of course, … Continue reading
