The 2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen took
urban border as its theme. For good reason. If there is a place to study
border as condition, it is Shenzhen. Demographic, territorial,
economic, political, social, and legal borders created this fifteen
million city in less than thirty-five years, and drive its further
development. The transformation of this factory of the world into a
post-industrial economy and society, the disappearance of the Hong
Kong-Shenzhen divide in 2047, and the reconciliation of state capitalism
and communist rule, are but three of the challenges Shenzhen is facing,
to which its role and position in the larger-scale development of the
Pearl River Delta can be added. History in the making while we speak.
This issue of Volume, acting as a special catalogue of the UABB\Shenzhen
2013, presents an extensive survey of border conditions and border
realities inside and outside Shenzhen s territory and demonstrates how
one specific border, the industrial park Shekou where Shenzhen s history
started, can be a catalyst for future development. With contributions
by Huang Weiwen, Zhang Yuxing, Li Xiangning, Jeffrey Johnson, Ole
Bouman, Zheng Yulong, Mary Ann O Donnell, Yang Xiaodi, Yin Yujun, Adrian
Blackwell, Linda Vlassenrood, Doreen Heng Liu, Liu Guangyun, Chen
Zetao, Chris Lai, Dai Yun, Corinna Gardner, Space Caviar, Rafi Segal,
Yonatan Cohen, Rufina Wu, Stefan Canham, Harry den Hartog, Daan
Roggeveen, Michiel Hulshof, Stefan Al, Zhang Xiaojing, Chen Zhou, Ni
Weihua,
