Urban social movements become one of the major forms of participation of urban governance of the public in recent years. Social values changed dramatically after the handover that people started to concern their right to the city. They demand for more power and influence in the formulation of urban policies and development strategy. However, urban governance in Hong Kong did not change with the time and resisted changes. This thus widened the gap of urban meaning between the formal government and the public. The conflict of their urban meanings thus led to urban social movement which aim to transform the urban governance. This also reinforce by the presence of new media in the mobilization of the movement. This dissertation aims to investigate how the changes of social values affect the conflict of urban meaning between urban actors and the impact on the urban governance in Hong Kong through analysing the framing of activists and urban managers. Choi Yuen Village Incident is chosen as case study to examine how different urban actors frame the issue and the implied urban meaning in the framing. This would reveal the conflict of urban meaning and the root of the occurrence of urban social movements in Hong Kong. / published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

With the expansion of cities and economic prosperity, research on the location of commercial center has been increasingly brought to the attention of the relevant scholars. Urban commercial activity affects the city's overall development. Moreover, commercial land directly reflects the urban spatial structure characteristic, and is closely related to the city's social economic activities. Urban traffic network structure is the basis for land use and economic activity of urban space. Among many factors affecting commercial distribution, urban traffic network and the accessibility of it are the main factors. This study is trying to answer what role the accessibility plays in the development of commercial centers and how. Space Syntax theory provides a new perspective for understanding the complicated urban transportation system, and a set of quantitative analysis method for space configuration. In order to investigate the accessibility of traffic network in Hong Kong, map data will be collected from road network and metro network, and the data will be digitalized before the calculation of accessibility. For the purpose of finding the development of commercial centers, a variety of data will also be collected from the three commercial centers-Tsim Sha Tsui, Causeway Bay, and Mong Kok, such as the operating area of main retail stores in each commercial center. The first theoretical hypothesis is that the accessibility of traffic network does have an influence on the location and development of commercial centers. After the calculation of metro network accessibility and road network accessibility, the second theoretical hypothesis is that the accessibility of metro network may exert different effect on the location and development of commercial centers, compared with that of road network. The influence of metro network and road network on the location of commercial centers was discussed. It can be concluded that an area of high accessibility is more likely to develop into a commercial center. In another word, commercial centers always have higher accessibility than non-commercial center areas. Another conclusion is that the scope of commercial centers is mainly controlled by accessibility of road network in local configuration. / published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / Urban Design / Master / Master of Urban Design

published_or_final_version / Urban Design / Master / Master of Urban Design

published_or_final_version / Urban Design / Master / Master of Urban Design

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

published_or_final_version / Urban Design / Master / Master of Urban Design

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

Ko Shan. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1997-98, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter 1. --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1. --- Prologue / Chapter 1.2. --- Point of Departure / Chapter 2. --- Project Description / Chapter 2.1. --- Design Objective / Chapter 2.2. --- Project possibilities / Chapter 2.3. --- Site Selection / Chapter 2.4. --- Client's Profile / Chapter 2.5. --- User's Profile / Chapter 2.6. --- Scope of Work / Chapter 2.7. --- Facility Program / Chapter 2.8. --- Zoning / Chapter 3. --- Site Planning / Chapter 3.1. --- Preliminary Options - Tsim Sha Tsui / Chapter 3.2. --- Preliminary Options - Central / Chapter 3.3. --- Final / Chapter 3.4. --- Design Issues and Concepts / Chapter 4. --- Building Design / Chapter 4.1. --- Main Shelter - The Tent / Chapter 4.2. --- Pier / Chapter 4.3. --- Information Center / Chapter 4.4. --- Other buildings / Appendix / Chapter I. --- Study on Tent Architecture / Chapter II. --- Study on Tourism / Chapter III. --- HK Tourism / Chapter IV. --- History of Star Ferry / Chapter V. --- Site Analysis / Chapter VI. --- Ferry Terminal / Chapter VII. --- Design Issues / Bibliography

Cheung Man Lun Allan. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2000-01, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Manifesto / Synopsis / Introduction / Attitude to the preservation & conservation of historic building / Understanding history / Historical Analysis / Studies of memory / Analogy / Site Analysis / Suggested Programs / Development / Final Design / Bibliography