published_or_final_version / abstract / Urban Design / Master / Master of Urban Design

published_or_final_version / Urban Studies / Master / Master of Social Sciences

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

published_or_final_version / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Master / Master of Urban Design

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

Poon Hung Man Samuel. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2000-2001, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter 010 --- brief / Chapter 020 --- 城寨追憶 / initiation / Chapter - --- kowloon walled city / Chapter 030 --- 時間滾輪 / change / Chapter - --- changing of place / Chapter - --- how to face the change / Chapter 040 --- 戲如人生 / performance / Chapter - --- are we acting / Chapter - --- where are we / Chapter - --- is life true / Chapter 050 --- 轉變之間 / dramatics / Chapter - --- dramatics / Chapter - --- scenario of life/time / Chapter - --- impact of dramatics/time / Chapter 060 --- 無上無下 / theatre / Chapter - --- theatre and architecture / Chapter - --- definition of theatre / Chapter - --- lam / Chapter 070 --- 演出轉變 / evolution / Chapter - --- event or process / Chapter - --- participants / Chapter - --- organic or synthetic / Chapter - --- "architects, directors or stage designer" / Chapter - --- reference: New Theory of Urban Design / Chapter 080 --- 城市心靈 / site / Chapter - --- Staunton street / Chapter - --- wa in fong / Chapter - --- architectural articulation / Chapter - --- interview with local inhabitants / Chapter 090 --- 劇情發展 / architectural discourse / Chapter - --- process exercise / Chapter - --- transformations / Chapter - --- "comments (dec, 2000)" / Chapter 100 --- 重新定位 / re-configuration / Chapter - --- genesis & argument / Chapter - --- methodology / Chapter - --- reference from performance / Chapter 1 --- first man child / Chapter 2 --- i-deal school / Chapter - --- the process / Chapter 110 --- 後期製作 / consolidation / Chapter - --- the basic strategy / Chapter - --- the schematic appearance of the scenarios / Chapter 120 --- 劇場展現 / presentation / Chapter - --- process index / Chapter - --- siteplan & overview / Chapter - --- process directory / Chapter - --- the primary circulation system: scaffolding / Chapter - --- the future accommodation / Chapter 130 --- 回顧展望 / epilogue / Chapter - --- "comments (27 april, 2001)" / Chapter - --- responses / Chapter - --- to prospect / Chapter - --- bibliography

Urban decay is among the most urgent problems in Hong Kong today. There are more than 3,000 blocks of building are considered sub-standard and 110,000 families are living in these homes. Despite the Government's immense effort in undertaking its own renewal projects for many years, Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS) was the earlier urban renewal agent whom was invited by the Government to undertake redevelopment in the urban areas. In light of the rapid ageing of Hong Kong' building stock during the last two decades, HKHS has further assisted the Government with its own resources and expertise by implementing a 10-year maintenance incentive named "Building Management and Maintenance Scheme" (BMMS) since 2005. The BMMS aims at encouraging property owners to improve safety and hygiene of their living environment, it is administrated by HKHS with the provision of professional advice and financial assistance for publicizing proper building management and timely maintenance. HKHS has exerted all its strength to promote the BMMS for seven years, the research is to gauge the effectiveness of HKHS for the achievement and shortcomings in the aspect of offering building maintenance incentives, particular in the launch of BMMS. The evaluation will focus on the three aspects, including the scheme performance, scheme design process and implementation process. An opinion survey was conducted in June 2012 for the data collection purpose and survey results correlates with the goals and objectives of the study are comprehensively discussed in Analysis I & II. The findings show the effectiveness of HKHS in offering building maintenance incentives much depends on what stage does the scheme undergo, whilst the BMMS in general is operated effectively to address the problem of urban decay, with the exception of running it at the outset of the scheme design stage. In the course of time, the recommendations pursuant to the weakness of the BMMS and the highlights in survey findings are drawn up at the end of the study, in order to make the building maintenance incentives more effectively in solving the urban decay problem. / published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

The urban renewal outcomes have long been criticized as undesirable. Issues like involuntary displacement, uprooting communities and violating local citizens’ views remain unsolved after series of institutional reforms in the late 1990s. The academia thus turned to seek for more public engagement channels and considered engagement as the key to achieve desirable urban renewal outcomes. But repeated failures of new public engagement platforms seem to be inconsistent with the theoretical predictions, creating an impasse in local discussion. The study tries to explain the impasse with Lacanian subjectivity of lack and desire. To fill the existential lack, as metonymical displacement, subjects continuously desire for a complete symbolic explanation. But with the existence of Real, the lacking subjects fail to capture everything under the symbolic, leading to incompleteness and anxiety. To paper over such anxiety, the fantasy of spatial planning delivers a triumphalist imagination that future time and space can be fully manipulated by omnipotent subjects of planning practitioners and conquered by the symbolic (the plan). Thus, the subject behaviors and identifications of planning practitioners and community members are shaped by the Other to sustain such fantasy. Through case study of Ma Tau Kok 13 Streets, the study argues that the main concerns of DURF is not the fulfillment of public aspirations, rather, the recommendations by DURF are solely designed for sustaining the spatial planning fantasy. The issues on urban renewal in 13 Streets are highly complicated and unpredictable, involving entwining conflicting of interests and factors beyond the control of DURF. The inability to control implies incompleteness and insecurity. Therefore, in the final plan of DURF, the complexities are deliberately simplified or bypassed, so that the fantasy and identification of planning practitioners can be sustained and the command of the Other is fulfilled. However, such self-deception fails to provide meaningful recommendations towards the community aspirations from public engagement process and even acts against the interests of local citizens in 13 Streets neighborhood, despite the more balanced composition and democratic procedures of DURF. To overcome the identifications and resulting distortion in public engagement, the curse of fantasy has to be traversed. Planning practitioners has to reavow the existence of the unpredictability of the reality and admit the fundamental limitations of their symbolic. The uncontrollable factors in the reality which has been repressed should be deliberately emphasized with the support of Bottom-Up Geographic Information System (BUGIS). In moral terms, the planning practitioners should consciously bear the condemnation from the Other of not performing as ‘problem solvers’. Besides, the community members should also be educated to bear greater responsibility in forming feasible recommendations in planning process, rather than assuming themselves as idle believers. Thus, other than traditional institutional and structural reform paradigm, a new theoretical outlet derived from subjectivity is provided for the impasse of Hong Kong. / published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning