Lam Li. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2001-2002, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [93]-[95]). / Acknowledgment --- p.2 / Chapter 1 --- Thesis Statement --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1 --- Hypothesis / Chapter 1.2 --- Statement / Chapter 1.3 --- Objectives / Chapter 1.4 --- Scope of Work / Chapter 2 --- Research --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- "Reading on Spirit of Place : < Genius Loci>, Christian" / Chapter 2.2 --- "Reading on the <Image of City>, Kevin Lynch" / Chapter 2.3 --- Reflections on the Two Readings / Chapter 2.4 --- Studies on the Recent History of City Planning / Chapter 2.5 --- Precedent Study: An Art City - Paris / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Haussmann: Paris Transformed / "The Rebuilding of Paris, 1852-1870" / Chapter 2.5.2 --- "The Place Louis-XV, 1757-90" / Chapter 2.5.3 --- New development scheme for Paris by Henry Bernard (1965-67) / Chapter 2.5.4 --- The new city centre - les Forum des halles by C. Vasconi - G. Pencreac'h 1982 / Chapter 2.6 --- Research on Public Art / Chapter 2.7 --- Writing: <An Urban Pubic Space - The Hong Kong Culture Centre> / Chapter 3 --- Special Studies on Piazza Delia Signoria and Uffizi Gallery in Florence --- p.43 / Chapter 3.1 --- The City: Florence / Chapter 3.2 --- Piazza Delia Signoria / Chapter 3.3 --- Uffizi Gallery / Chapter 4 --- Site Analysis --- p.48 / Chapter 4.1 --- The City: Hong Kong / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Landscape / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Major Site Influences / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Victoria Harbour / Chapter 4.1.4 --- West Kowloon New Cultural District Competition / Chapter 4.2 --- "The District: Neighborhoods: Kowloon City District, Wong Tai Sin District and Kowoon Bay District" / Chapter 4.3 --- The Region: Old Kai Tak Airport / Chapter 4.3.1 --- History / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Character / Chapter 4.3.3 --- East Kowloon Development Proposal / Chapter 4.4 --- Ma Tau Kok / Chapter 4.5 --- Cattle Depot Artist Village / Chapter 5 --- Design Development --- p.72 / Chapter 5.1 --- Planning Strategy 1: Preliminary Proposal of Master Layout Plan / Chapter 5.2 --- Planning Strategy 2: The Organisation of art institutions in Hong Kong / Chapter 5.3 --- Planning Strategy 3: The Artists' Path and the Nodes - the Cattle Artist new Cultural area in Kai Tak / Chapter 5.4 --- Preliminary Design / Chapter 5.5 --- Final Design / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Street Design / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Theatre Design / Chapter 5.6 --- Final Presentation / Chapter 6 --- Bibliography --- p.91 / Chapter 7 --- Reference --- p.92

Ng Cheuk Man Matt. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2002-2004, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-87). / Chapter 1.0 --- behind the city / Chapter 1.1 --- urban change / Chapter 1.2 --- "observation ( specific in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong)" / Chapter 2.0 --- in the city / Chapter 2.1 --- "urban pedestrian movement in everyday (macro understanding of street life) ( specific in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong)" / Chapter 2.2 --- street life (micro understanding of street life) / Chapter 2.3 --- shops (ground floor retails) / Chapter 2.4 --- shops (second & upper floor retails) / Chapter 2.5 --- hidden movement / Chapter 2.6 --- timeless movement / Chapter 3.0 --- will be in the city / Chapter 3.1 --- opportunities / Chapter 3.2 --- design intention / Chapter 3.3 --- proposal / Chapter 3.4 --- design / Chapter 4.0 --- Bibliography / Chapter 5.0 --- Appendix

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

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

With rapid urbanization and population growth in urban areas, urban development is necessary and urgent. However, with tight land supply from expropriating new farmland, redeveloping urban villages at central urban area would be full of potential. Basically, an urban village is the byproduct of rapid urbanization, with collective-owned non-agricultural use land surrounded by a state-owned urban area. Because of the particular land ownership structure in urban villages, conventional urban redevelopment methods are not suitable for the redevelopment of urban villages, public-private partnerships had been introduced into urban redevelopment to integrate the power and resources of private sector into the process of urban redevelopment with a legal contract, to form a collaboration between public and private sections, and to share the profits and benefits. A study on such partnerships in the redevelopment of urban villages could be instructive and enlightening for the future redevelopment of rural non-agricultural land in China. The major aim of the research is to discover the conditions under which partnerships for the redevelopment of urban villages could be established in China. The redevelopment of three urban villages in Shenzhen, namely the villages of Yunong, Gangxia and Huanggang, were thoroughly studied. A research framework has been established by examining the power relations of such partnerships and has been tailored to the scenario of redevelopment of urban village in China. The partnership synergy between local government, urban village communities and private developers, and role conflicts of each participants have been analyzed by considering the impact factors inherent in the institutional context of municipal government and the cultural context of urban villages in Shenzhen. These factors affect the composition, the process and the outcome of partnership in redevelopment of urban villages. The study found that because institutional support and land resource are exclusively and irreplaceably provided by the local government and the urban village, local government with systematic power is the primary partner who influences the partnership in redevelopment of urban villages the most. The local government arranges and executes the redevelopment timetable, decides the objective of redevelopment and devises rules of redistributing redevelopment profits. Under some conditions like better location, larger size and well-organization and efficient leadership, the secondary dominator namely village community becomes more important on the power balance of partnership. Private developer has no unique advantage in the partnership and could only be the follower of other two partners. Case studies from different cities with diversified institutional and cultural context are expected to be included into the future research areas. / published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

This research uses extended case studies undertaken in two artists’ neighbourhoods, the Hong Kong’s Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre in Shek Kip Mei and Taipei’s Treasure Hill Village in Gongguan, to examine how historical state-owned spaces in old urban cores now have become new sites of production for artists and arts practitioners. It addresses how and why the two cities, with similar histories and urban strategies, have created and defined the artists’ neighbourhoods in different ways, resulting in diverse paths of socio-spatial development. Hong Kong and Taipei have constituted the few examples amongst East Asian cities that have converted state-owned properties into artists’ clusters under the management of non-profit organizations in recent years. In both cities, artists have become a vanguard for the revitalization of urban spaces that aim to serve the interests of the state, the cultural sector and local community through place-making practices, which entail participation in the production of meaning and local specificities of a place. Research on urban cultural strategies of East Asian cities has put more emphasis on the political-economic factors as shaping cultural spaces but little on the social dynamics involved in spatial production. This study suggests that the new form of artists’ clusters in Hong Kong and Taipei requires an approach that incorporates the social dimension of space into an analysis of the artists’ neighbourhoods, which have tended to be less economically driven than the art districts run by business corporations. By focusing on Hong Kong and Taipei, this study shows that not only are the orientation and socio-spatial outcomes of the two artist neighbourhoods shaped by history and state definitions of cultural governance, but also by the social dynamics on the ground as configured by the different compositions of cultural space, the relationships between the management, cultural producers and local community, as well as their associated spatial practices. This study demonstrates that Hong Kong’s Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre exemplifies a regulated space that has been shaped by contentious politics, in which incompatible spatial practices between the management by the non-profit company and the artists have created confrontations on a daily basis. The tendency of the non-profit company toward management practices, accommodating leisure and consumption experience, and including a wide variety of artistic experience has created contradictions and undermined social cohesion within the artist community. In the case of Taipei, Treasure Hill Village manifested the civic orientation of the state in cultural governance. The officials’ endorsements of social activists as cultural planners and artists as the drivers for community revitalization have reinforced public participation in cultural activities and public meanings of cultural space. The primary aim to foster collective sense of action within the artist community and the local residents in promoting civic engagement and social inclusion through arts has generated greater cohesion among the local actors. The differences between the two cases suggest that social dynamics have been central to how the experimental processes in place-making are realised and unfolded. / published_or_final_version / Sociology / Master / Master of Philosophy

Industrial sector was dominated before 1970s, in order to meet the social need at that period, the Government put great effort in industrial development. Industrial areas were commonly found. As economic restructured, the open door policy made “industrial” sector was replaced by “financial” sector gradually. Facing this changed environment, many industrial buildings are being under-utilized and some are even vacant. This is definitely a waste of land resources in Hong Kong. With the increase in population, demand in space increase and hence land resources is valuable. Under the Town Planning Board, Land in Hong Kong was marked to restrict the land use on areas. For example, the area marked in “industrial” use means the buildings located were restricted to be use in industrial which most industrial buildings were found in that area. “Rezoning” and the introduction of “Other Specified Uses” annotated “Business” (“OU(B)) zone was introduced in respond to the situation that most of the buildings were non-compliant use in the industrial buildings. This is what the Government put effort to tackle the problem and the rezoning progress is still an on-going policy. In addition, some industrial buildings which located in the industrial zone and rezone to be “OU(B)” zone, even though rezone the areas, non-compliant uses in some industrial buildings are still found. The government hence established revitalizing industrial policies in 2009-2010 Policy Address in which to promote the revitalization of old industrial buildings through encouraging redevelopment and conversation of them. In this paper, there is a study on how the Hong Kong government takes part in the revitalization project in the industrial areas. The current uses of the industrial buildings, the establishment of the revitalizing industrial buildings policies in Hong Kong will be discussed, and through the oversea case to find out the whether there is lesson can be learnt for the Hong Kong government in regeneration an area. / published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management