2020 24th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV) Identify and Elucidating Urban Village Essentials Through Remodeling and Visualising a Social Housing Prototype in Guangzhou for Sustainable Residential Development in China Shiran Geng Hing-Wah Chau Se Yan College of Engineering and Science College of Engineering and Science Faculty of Architecture, Building and Victoria University Victoria University Planning Melbourne, Australia Melbourne, Australia The University of Melbourne
[email protected] [email protected] Melbourne, Australia theseyan@gmail .com Abstract— There is currently an urban housing or commercial use, but it was quite difficult to do so due to crisis affecting low-income people across China. Due to the regulations on land ownership [1, 2]. I In some cases, the need for high-density public housing, it is becoming farmers were able to form collectives and retain land increasingly common to demolish urban villages in order ownership for developing their own dwellings. to build denser and higher social housing towers for low- Urban villages attract low-income migrants, young income people. However, in addressing the need for new workers and fresh graduates to live. The reason for their housing for low-income people, the social and cultural popularity is not only because of the affordable rents but aspects of urban villages should be duly considered. also because of their convenient locations in the city centre. This paper aims to identify and elucidate the It is also worth looking at the social and cultural aspects of salient features of urban villages based on case studies in urban villages. They are organic, unique, self-supporting Guangzhou and then use these to formulate sustainable and diverse.