Based on the idea of infusing urban theory with the geographical knowledge embedded within physical space, the thesis uses and inquires the Pearl River Delta in southern China, to construct and argue through the use of visual methods, in-depth fieldwork and spatial explorations, the necessity of rasing alternative interpretations of the urban that are ground-based. It does such operation not from the center of the Delta, but from a peripheral point of view based in Zhaoqing City; the less economically and industrially developed municipality of the Delta.
