Greenbelt "Fecility"

Revitalization development of Greenbelt "Fecility" in Yanjiao, China by Chinyi Gu/Ran Tao

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Name	development of greenbelt 'felicity'
Location	Yanjiao, Hebei Province
Country	China
Topic	please enter the topic here
Office	office or planner/designer
Client	please enter the client here
Completion	design in progress
Project costs	Please enter the costs (if known)
Case study author(s)	TaoRan/Chinyi Gu


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The initial question raised natually is that

*The development of the greenbelt is actually a defence to prevent the city sprawling or

*it would be forged to serve as a green lung for new city center?

On the political aspect, due to the very location of Yanjiao, which belongs to the big Peking economic circle, local government is intended to maximize the scope of the whole town. The viewpoint of landscape achitect is on the contrary.Regarding the severe fragmantation of the landuse in peri-urban area close to Peking, the crucial issue is that if the build up of greenbelt could virtually work as a barrier to isolate the building up of the city from the farming land.

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