Liangwei Xu 许良伟

Mine wasteland refers to the land used for industrial production, transportation and storage related to industrial production, and the land abandoned and unused in the later stage, such as abandoned mines, quarries, factories, railways, wharves, etc.

In view of the fact that the waste land resource is a representative place for the exhaustion of urban resources and the waste of site space, and the regeneration of waste land is an important part of urban renewal, this project mainly discusses the regeneration potential and transformation mode of mining waste land from the perspective of urban renewal. Nowadays, the existence of mining wasteland not only interferes with the natural ecological model to a great extent, but also causes serious environmental problems, such as air pollution, water pollution, land destruction and landscape fragmentation.

In addition, in the field of urban planning, the transformation scheme for abandoned mines has become the focus of many urban transformation schemes. For example, the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent in the southeast of England and the Clapham underground farm in London have been reasonably transformed and utilized. Therefore, this dissertation will gradually analyze different transformation methods and strategies, and try to provide new ideas for solving the problems faced by the transformation of mine wasteland.

The subject of my research is about the Caliban And The Witch. After reading a part of the book, I compiled a timeline mentioned, mainly about the development of witch hunting activities from the 12th century to the 17th century. I divided the entire timeline into six parts, namely infancy, widespread unrest, the witch trials appear, escalation, peak and revolt. 

When sorting out the timeline, I think it is very important to have two backgrounds, the great famine and the black death, this is a concrete manifestation of social unrest. I tried to understand why witch hunting occurred. This was due to the spread of the Black Death, and the Catholic believers at that time could not get shelter from God. Therefore, they chose to believe in some native primitive religions, which led to the main Catholicism. The status was broken. The Catholic Church tried to regain their status, so they used people’s fear of the Black Death to scare people that witches would return to the plague. One of the most important things is that in 1484, Pope Innocent VIII announced that witchcraft would become a new threat. Then Charles V completely proposed to kill witch. There were also some resistance activities at the time, but most of them ended in failure. 

Although it seems that the entire timeline is about witch hunting, I think it is also about the evolution of a power struggle idea. From the beginning, marginalized people and the working class can only be exploited due to different classes. But as time goes by, people are more willing to fight for their own interests. During the peak period, there were also some resistance activities, such as "Revolt Against the Feudal Regime" and "Peasant Wars". Although many struggles in history ended in failure, it has to be said that this has paved the way for what will happen later.

This is my thinking about a unique culture in China. It is about migrant workers, they are countryside women who works in a metropolitan. 

Many women often suffer from the pressure of marriage. At a young age, some girls may worry about whether their partner will meet the requirements of starting a family. As time passed, some single women began to think about the disadvantages of singleness and jumped into marriage rashly. Another segment of married women is forced to take on unpaid labor in family life outside of their careers. In some areas, they have even lost jobs to raise their children at home. Their defined lives also solidify the image of women as vulnerable and caring, thereby gradually losing their voice in the competitive workplace.

And then the employee perspective, the farmer identity, the economic value of labor, the sense of belonging to the city, the conflicts in life and some public opinion. I've laid out some possible links, like how education and knowledge affect the economic value of their labor, that is, how to better exchange labor. For example, migrant workers from rural areas do not have good education and knowledge, so they can only go to the construction industry or service industry to do some simple jobs, the workload is large and the wages are low. 

In short, I think they lack the institutional resources to rely on, as well as the economic and cultural capital. We can find out more about that rural people want to enter the city through their own efforts, but relatively, the exclusion of urban people makes it difficult for them to stay in the city.

Walker-friendly cities mean a slower pace of urban life, in other words, people are more willing to spend more time outdoors than indoors. Walk-friendly forms of mobility often represent short distances, such as people out shopping, walking, exercising, etc.

When UBI and UBS start working, the way people interact with the street will inevitably change. Especially about a change of purpose. Now, people move to other places for the purpose of having to go to work or to do the necessary things. However, under the subject of post-work, I think the purpose of people's movement will change from passive execution to spontaneous movement. In other words, when the form of traffic changes, the form of behavior also changes.

I chose flow as the carrier of the street because of its characteristics of freedom, mobility, connectivity and penetration. When the efficiency of travel is guaranteed, people's demands will shift to the quality of travel, in other words, the entertainment and comfort of the process. Therefore, project will start from the analysis of the needs of the population, and this will be the design requirements.