Urban Village Intervention: A Linear Plaza in Shenzhen Part 1 Project 2006 LUK Wing Lun, williamPaul Tatsumi Walker Chinese University of Hong Kong | China Urban Village is formed under large number of immigration of citizens from other proviences. The living quality is reather poor with high density. This project focuses on a new strategy to re-develop one of these villages in a prototypical way.Providing a walkway cutting through a plaza in the middle to link up the village. The plaza becomes a piece of void space supporting different kinds of activities by responding to its neighbourhood. Spaces, including markets, restraurants, and performing spaces, are evolved through weaving of elements and this hold a new order of the village for future development. The studio set out to study the emergent phenomenon of "village-within-city" in Shenzhen, China, where rampant development of low cost, un-regulated housing projects had sprung up under the rapid urbanization. The student's work observes the pattern of large-scale landscape park of the Shenzhen, and investigates the notion of landscape urbanism as a proto-strategy to re-construct the village as a micro-urban condition of a shopping-park space and to give back the original marketplace in a different form. The result is a genuine public space, not just a "shopping experience" for the village dwellers in this otherwise generic city. Tutor(s)