The Garden Life of Floating Landscape in the River
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Chan, Yu-Fang
Abstract
Today the process of urbanization and modernization of infrastructure construction, the agricultural activities gradually are expelled or extruded, and people seek the Capitalist society, their body gradually lose its integrity. Viljon(2005) based on the urban agriculture which could stimulates economy, consists of experiences of urban developing, he argues the concept of Continuous productive urban landscape space(CPULs). It advocated putting the production of green into urban design and planning, combining the production, life, and ecology together, to create a gradually toward self-sufficient urban green network. How to reply to the physical integrity of people in the city of the future trend towards sustainable and productive urban landscape? It is bound to need to figure out the problem.
Looking around the land border in Taipei City, for example: located in Chung-Hsing bridge side, cross the Tamsui river downstream and Xindian natural sandbar in the floating cover on the ground. It is a special informal landscape on the city marginal land and even after half a century. These original existent land had gradually became illegal and non-permissive farming behavior with the practices of the urban planning, and even called the illegal occupation of public land in green production activities. This floating land was used to be productive farming fields for making money in the past, then gradually transformed into the garden, to today’s public pursuit of natural pastoral simplicity of life and escape the concrete jungle and the alienation of society. The purpose of the study is to read the floating landscape under Chung-Hsing Bridge in Taipei city. I used diachronic analysis the production process of this space. Also, combining the interview with farmers and field participant observation, to analyse the productive green space and activities on the floating sandbar landscape under Chung-Hsing Bridge, Taipei. Furthermore, how these phenomenon symbolize the desire of green farm and farmer’s nostalgia of citizen. Finally, through the floating landscape change and the cultural representation to represent urban garden and farmer’s nostalgia, which provide the reference of establishing urban green network for CPULs.
Subjects
Urban fringe
Guerrilla garden
Community garden
Heterotopia
Floating landscape
Continuous productive urban landscape space(CPULs)
Chung-Hsing bridge
Type
thesis
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