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This blog collects most of the maps drawn for the author's MArch thesis.
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About Domenica Bona
Domenica Bona is an Italian PhD architect with a variegate experience in design and research, from architecture to urban planning, editorial and media design.
Domenica holds an M.Arch from Polytechnic of Milan School of Civil Architecture and a PhD from the Third University of Rome. Awarded with INU Award 2018, her doctoral thesis investigates the concept of Chineseness in contemporary Chinese cities' image through the application of the morphological approach.
In 2010, she moved to China to studying architecture and urban design at Shenzhen University, where she developed her deep interest in the urban morphology and architectural history of China and Far East Asia. Since then, a yearly-based series of research trips around the country let her visit the remotest villages and participate in several research seminars in Beijing, Xiamen, Wuhan universities, among other institutions.
While focused on architectural design and branding in practice, Domenica is a founding member of the association RebelArchitette, promoting equity in the architectural profession internationally.
She remains active in academia in Italy and abroad.
She is currently a lecturer at the China Center of the Technical University of Berlin, with a course on architecture and cities in modern and Contemporary China across cultures, styles, and gender issues.
About Domenica Bona's MArch thesis
Title: "University and Green City: designing a new campus in Shenzhen and planning new scenarios of development for the city and the PRD region."
Field: Architecture and Urban Planning
Tutor: prof. Vincenzo Donato
School of Civil Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
Date: December 2012
Thesis abstract:
"Raised by Chinese centralism in many rural areas, the urban proto-capitalist experience is a unique phenomenon. The Pearl River Delta coastal region – where Shenzhen stands – has undergone the most effective policies of urbanization and economic growth ever put in place before. In about thirty years, it has beaten the global markets, becoming the well-known “factory of the world.” The global economy forces us to reflect on the fate of a system in continuous expansion. Slowing down the pace of growth and the rethinking of settlements, infrastructure, and productivity can outline sceneries for experimentation and modeling of a new complex territorial organization. So far, the preservation of agricultural land is a key factor that can positively influence such reformative scenarios. Specialized work-oriented education is a crucial resource and a valuable tool for training a society sensitive and embedded in a social context.
It is vital as well as the search for effective methods for food production that can guarantee future livelihood. Carrying forward these considerations and insisting on investigating a unique study case -different from our habitat- represents an attempt to apply the methods of analysis, project planning, and composition of our school of architecture."
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All the contents published in this blog are the property of the author. They are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License.
Bona, Domenica (2012). "Title of the image" in Università e Città Verde. Progetto per un campus universitario a Shenzhen e proposte per la definizione di nuovi scenari insediativi per la città e la regione cinese del Pearl River Delta. (M.Arch Thesis), Politecnico di Milano, Milano. Retrieved from https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/73741
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