Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-107).

Thesis (M.U.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.U.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Master / Master of Science in Real Estate and Construction Development

Wei Peiling. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i-ii / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv-v / List of Tables --- p.vi-vii / List of Figures --- p.viii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Review of Literatures on Price relations in Real Estate Markets --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Review of Literatures on Price relations in Stock Markets --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Review of Literatures on Industrial Real Estate Market --- p.8 / Chapter 2.4 --- Review of Literatures on Measurement of Real Estate Prices --- p.11 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Data Description --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1 --- Economic Property Research Center Dataset --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2 --- Sample Selection and Classification --- p.14 / Chapter 3.3 --- Summary of Statistics --- p.15 / Chapter 3.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Methodology --- p.18 / Chapter 4.1 --- Measurement --- p.18 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Rate of Return (ROR) as a measure of price level --- p.18 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Number of transactions as a measure of trading volume (Vol.) --- p.19 / Chapter 4.2 --- Unit Roots Test --- p.20 / Chapter 4.3 --- Partial Autocorrelation Function --- p.21 / Chapter 4.4 --- Bootstrap Method --- p.23 / Chapter 4.5 --- Granger Causality Test --- p.23 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Empirical Results --- p.25 / Chapter 5.1 --- Sale Market --- p.25 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Relationships between Prices --- p.25 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Relationships between Trading Volumes --- p.27 / Chapter 5.2 --- Rental Market --- p.28 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Relationships between Rents --- p.28 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Relationships between Trading Volumes --- p.29 / Chapter 5.3 --- Chapter Summary --- p.31 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.33 / Appendix 1. Summary of Previous Literatures on Industrial Real Estate --- p.37 / Appendix 2. Tables --- p.41 / Appendix 3. Figures --- p.65 / Appendix 4. Definition of property types --- p.77 / Appendix 5. Example of Perl program used to extract the data from EPRC data sheets --- p.78 / Bibliography --- p.79

This thesis examines local people's voices and influence in negotiations over large-scale land deals. Drawing on ethnographic work on a case study from southern Madagascar, it highlights the variety of agropastoralists' responses to, and experienced outcomes of, the implementation of an agribusiness project on their land. The purpose of this research was to understand the conditions under which certain local people get heard, and others silenced, in the context of corporate land access and the processes by which some of these local voices manage to influence the terms and conditions of the deal. It looked at how horizontal and vertical power dynamics interface with situated moral economies and contentious politics to inform variations in local people's perspectives over, engagement with and experienced outcomes of the land deal. I argue that local voices and opportunities for influence in the context of land transactions in Madagascar are constructed at the intersection of national and village politics. I draw attention to the practices and discourses through which local state officials produce ‘powers of exclusion' and ‘powers of compliance' in their mediation of land deals. I show that, in socially-differentiated local populations, formal compliance with dispossession reflects processes of different natures: “compliance as acquiescence” for some, but also “constrained hope”, and potential challenging of local structures of domination or “compliance as resistance” for others. I explore the moral economies that underpin perspectives on corporate land access as well as choices to express, or suppress, subversive voices and observe a resistance, across social divides, to the “demoralising of land deals”. I show how the vulnerability of state authorities to social movements combined with competition for the resources of patronage and of authority associated with the control of corporate land access open interstices for influence. In a context of institutional bias however, only those who manage to activate key alliances with state officials and to unify village voices beyond inter and intra-class differences stand a chance of being heard.

published_or_final_version / Urban Design / Master / Master of Urban Design

abstract / Real Estate and Construction / Master / Master of Science in Real Estate and Construction

This study examines the reuse potential of industrial land and infrastructure left abandoned or otherwise underutilized. The goal of this study is to open discussion and dialogue into such cases in North American cities that currently are liabilities and offer guidelines and methods for approaching preservation and reuse of such properties in a manner that contributes to community health, safety and welfare while maintaining historical character and significance.Abandoned or underutilized industrial land and infrastructure often pose significant environmental, safety, and land-use liability issues for municipalities. The application of creative reuse ideas centered on the notion of preserving industrial character, while creating new housing and recreation options for citizens is a major opportunity for communities struggling to cope with the negative aspects of these properties.The design project portion of this study was performed as part of an `ideas competition' conducted in 2003 by the `Friends of The High Line,' a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving a 1.5 mile stretch of abandoned, elevated rail bed in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan Borough, New York City. / Department of Architecture