The public space is and has been an integral part of communities for centuries. It serves as a convenient setting for a broad variety of leisure and recreational activities, as well as enhancing the image and perceived value of a community. Recreational public spaces provide a location for people to meet, relax, and exchange ideas. They can serve the needs and interests of all kinds of people, young and old irrespective of their cultural backgrounds. This report seeks to trace the genealogy of people and their use of recreational public space. Thus it uncovers the history of how space is perceived, interpreted and understood by people who live in Yeoville. It focuses on the understanding of space as an agglomeration of people, objects and events.The report also seeks to conceptualize people’s perception on the use of recreational public space and explore the changing relationship between people and their use of space in Yeoville. Through the process of perception we create a sense of place, i.e. a relationship within a specific context. If a place is memorable, it is because it carries perceptual attributes such as clarity, differentiation, uniqueness, structure and form. Planning practice seems to overlook the importance of incorporating genealogy into planning for diversified cultural communities. The use of narratives or storytelling can have a great significance for planners when planning for these communities. Identifying the core components of a Good City Form and the production of space, the paper goes on to connect these elements based Lynch’s theory of ‘Good City Form’ which was propounded in 1981 and also Lebfebvre’s theory on ‘The Production of Space’ (1991), translated from La production de l’espace(1974). Lynch’s Good City Form (1981) form the theoretical base for this report as his five performance dimensions are used to measure whether Yeoville does meet the criteria.

Wong Chi Ming. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2010-2011, design report." / In English, with some text in Chinese. / Chapter 01 --- Introduction / Chapter 02 --- Methodology / Chapter 03 --- An investigation on the need of the working group / Chapter 04 --- Theory of ambiguity / Chapter 05 --- Case study / Chapter 06 --- Factors related to ambiguous boundary / Chapter 07 --- Test / Chapter 08 --- Exploration of the unit type and composition / Chapter 09 --- Site selection and site potential / Chapter 10 --- Site analysis and programme / Chapter 11 --- Building strategy / Chapter 12 --- Conclusion

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Thesis (M.Arch.)(Prof.)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Includes summary. Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Phd)--Open University. BLDSC no. DXN106438.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-198).

This thesis is concerned with placing 'public art' within the broader modernist spatialisation of social relations. The research takes place around two related enquiries. The first emerges from questions raised by the art critic Rosalyn Deutsche in regard to the proposition that public art functions as both a profession and technology that attempts to pattern space 'so that docile and useful bodies are created by and deployed within it'. Following such questions, this thesis seeks to scrutinise the ways in which discourses on public art might also operate in enabling, maintaining or even disrupting everyday practices and socio-spatial relations. Secondly, as a foray into methodologies of public art research, the thesis considers Foucauldian 'governmentality' approaches in terms of what these might have to offer an investigation of public art. / Thesis (PhD )--University of South Australia, 2008.

Thesis (MInt(Prof))(Architecture) --University of Pretoria, 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.