Prosperous Lishui. Ripensare il rapporto tra urbano e rurale nella Cina contemporanea

After decades of violent urban transformations, China is now entering a new stage of development. The international competition Future Shan-Shui City. Dwellings in the Lishui Mountains, promoted in April 2020 by Lishui municipality (Zhejiang), is an emblematic case of this new trend. In line with the main national policies, the competition highlights the necessity of envisaging new relations between urban and rural areas based on an integration of city-functions and programs in the countryside, and, vice versa, agriculture in urban spaces. This article discusses this issue, and how it has been interpreted by the project Prosperous Lishui.