Emancipatory Urbanization On the Independence of Mountain Territories in relation to Mega - City clusters: A Transect Approach.
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Intro -- Part One -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The Conundrum -- 1.3. Literature Review: On the potential of urbanizing of mountainsettlements in China. -- 1.4. Hypothesis and Research Questions -- Part Two Contextualization -- 2.1. Introduction Overview of urbanization phases in China. -- 2.2. Mountain territories and Metropolitan agglomeration -- 2.3. Opportunities and Challenges of the Dongjiang River Basin and thesurrounding Hakka Territory in Guangdong Province. -- 2.4. Fieldwork in the Mei Country Territory -- Part ThreeResearch by Design StudiesThe project as a knowledge producer 3.0. Notes on 'Transect as a Method' as applied in the following designstudies -- 3.1. Scale of Investigation -- 01. -- 3.2. Scale of Investigation -- 02. -- 3.3. Scale of Investigation -- 03. -- 3.4. Scale of Investigation -- 04. -- 3.5. Summary and Synthesis of design interventions: -- Part FourCritical Evaluation of the transect asa planning method. -- 4.0. Critical Evaluation of the rural-urban transect as a method for theanalysis and design of territories. -- 4.1. Epistemological Traditions: Géographie Volontaire, Urban -- Ruralterritories, and the Garden City Movement. 4.2. Recent projects influenced by Geddes and the Garden City Movement inChina -- Part FiveConclusion and future research questions -- 5.0. CONCLUSION: -- List of Figures -- Bibliography