Combinatory urbanism : atransition field between Hong Kong and Shenzhen

Abstract

Urban city is the context of the global space. Megacities, not nations, are becoming the world’s dominant, enduring social structures. By 2025, there will be at least 40 megacities in the world. With the background of urban expansion, the border areas of those megacities which governments focus on developing are becoming the densest communities of human activities, they will play the role of connecting the neighboring cities both in spatial and function aspects in the near future, also these areas contain series of social issues in spatial structure, ecological continuity and traffic organization. In the Pearl River Delta, frontier closed area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen is a typical example. Both government make the agreement to build the connections along the frontier closed area to improve the communication with each other in the future. The project starts with the regional context analysis, also explores the area’s potentials and problems with the development plan made by two governments. With the regional development background to view the concrete issues about the Lok Ma Chao loop area which is the first step to set up the connection between the two cities. The strategies will be proposed to meet the challenges from large number of people exchange, mixed needs of land use and the regional ecological continuity in the future.