Download or read book Dynamics of the Central Business District of Hong Kong written by Wai-san Wan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynamics of the Central Business District of Hong Kong written by Wai-San Wan and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Dynamics of the Central Business District of Hong Kong" by Wai-san, Wan, 溫慧珊, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled Dynamics of the Central Business District of Hong Kong Submitted by Wan Wai San for the degree of Master of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong in September 2007 Conventionally concentrated with service and retail activities, the central business district (CBD) has long been the dominant economic heart of many large cities. Over the past few decades, with widening and deepening economic globalization, facilitated by the development of information and communication technologies, the need for physical proximity between economic activities tends to fade out. With decentralization of retail and other commercial functions, the leading role of the CBD has therefore been in doubt. Notwithstanding advocates for its decline, a very strong CBD taking control over the increasingly dispersed global production network remains particularly in global cities such as New York and Tokyo. The present study uses Hong Kong, a world city in the Asia-Pacific region, as a case study to reveal the role and development of the CBD. Under the forces of globalization, the city has been undergoing significant economic restructuring. Together with intensifying ties with Mainland China, the development of its central area has been considerably affected. The present research aims to trace the development path of Hong Kong's CBD since the early 1990s, and thereupon to examine whether it has declined or continued to grow. It also attempts to generate important insights for the future planning and development of the city's CBD. This study adopts three levels of analysis. At the macro level, the spatial concentration of high-level service activities is examined on a basis of citywide comparison. Financial, banking and other business services have been predominant in Hong Kong's CBD. The concentration of these information-intensive functions, combined with decentralization of other lower level activities, such as wholesale and transport, has indicated that the area has witnessed functional purification. The meso-level analysis has revealed that the CBD has been constantly growing, in terms of both its spatial coverage and land use intensity. Between 1991 and 2001, its land area and floor area have expanded by more than 60 percent. Office space devoted to CBD uses has also been rapidly growing. In particular, commercial land uses have risen by nearly 70 percent. The micro-level investigation looks into two selected dynamics. Firstly, the deepening of Mainland-Hong Kong economic linkage has exerted increasing influence on the office locational choice in Hong Kong and hence the future development of its CBD. Secondly, as observed from the very high pedestrian circulation on the CBD-specific skywalk network, direct business interaction is still intensive and significant in this economic heart. To date, Hong Kong's CBD is not only the business center of the city, but also an advanced service hub of the region and the world. Careful planning for its future development is thus needed. There should also be a balanced development for the CBD system, with a strong core supported by and well-connected with other business sub-centers. It is also vital for the city and its CBD to take advantage of its technical know-how in financial and related businesses in order to develop deeper and broader economic relationship with Mainland China and thus consolidate itself as an international service
Download or read book The Central Business District of Hong Kong written by Sancia W.S Wan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central business district (CBD) has traditionally been the economic heart of the city with the greatest concentration of offices and retail establishments. The CBD boundary and internal structure indeed change constantly over time, as a result of interactions among activities within and outside the CBD, as well as due to the influence of external environments. Hong Kong and, in particular, its CBD have not only been affected by regional and local factors, including the intensified socio-economic linkages with the mainland of China and the local economic transition from manufacturing to services, but also by global forces, such as economic globalization and advancement of information and communications technologies (ICTs). In view of its dynamic nature, this paper aims to trace the development path of the CBD from the early 1990s to the start of this new millennium. I firstly examine the functional changes of the CBD by using sectoral employment statistics. Upon demarcation of the CBD, I subsequently analyze changes in its territorial-spatial extent throughout the past decade. This study throws light on the dynamics of the CBD in both the physical and functional dimensions. Instead of being deteriorated, Hong Kong's CBD continues to grow both laterally and vertically. The purification processes, i.e. more highorder services and retailing activities but fewer low-order ones, are also intensifying. The findings generate a foresight analysis on the development trends of the CBD of Hong Kong.
Download or read book Spatial Dynamics in the Experience Economy written by Anne Lorentzen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamics of place, location and territories from the perspective of an experience-based economy. It offers a valuable contribution to this new approach and the planning and management challenges it faces. This book emphasises three key avenues to understanding the experience economy. First, the book reconsiders innovation processes and the relationship between the consumption and production of experience value. Second, it considers emerging forms of governance related to experience-based development in businesses and cities. Third, it examines the role of place as a value, resource and outcome of experiential innovation and planning. This book will be of interested to researchers concerned with urban and regional development.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Co Evolution written by J. Child and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÔThis book gives full due to two areas which were totally under-researched in earlier work, namely how corporate evolution takes place and how it can proceed within a highly politicized as well as institutionalized environment. The Dynamics of Corporate Co-evolution is a remarkable statement of facts, a solid perspective on co-evolution Ð the way the relationships between YICT and its environments evolved together. It is an invaluable source of data on how a new container terminal became, after an initially difficult period, one of the world top-class ports largely through the initiatives of its management.Õ Ð Gustaaf De Monie University of Antwerp, Belgium ÔThere are two reasons for recommending this highly readable book. It offers a careful explanation of how interaction between investors, operating firms, local politicians and central administrators shapes the corporate governance of new Chinese multinationals and their contracts in a highly regulated infrastructure industry such as ports. Based on the outcome of the empirical study of ChinaÕs largest container terminal, the book further convincingly argues how the interaction between firms and local politicians or central administrators specifies the missing link in co-evolution theory, namely the mechanism by which firms can convert their demand for a better fitting business environment into corresponding institutional policies. In short the book offers both additional insights into the new business system in China (and suggestions for foreign firms how to better cope with such a system), and the process by which good theory gets refined.Õ Ð Barbara Krug, Erasmus University, The Netherlands ÔThe dramatic progress of many societies in recent decades has rested Ð often without full acknowledgement Ð on the hybridizing of different business systems, and secondly on the flowing together of the resulting blended organizations with their political social and cultural surroundings. This is nowhere better illustrated than in ChinaÕs Pearl River Delta where the long heritage of Hong Kong as a western trading outpost meets the longer heritage of China as a state-dominated society. In this book the co-evolution of the world's largest matrix of transport hubs is analysed in fine detail by another hybrid: that of world class exponents of both organization theory and the practical managing of complexity.Õ Ð Gordon Redding, INSEAD, France ÔThis fascinating, close range look at the co-evolution of a Chinese joint venture port operator and the dynamic political and economic environment in which it is embedded demonstrates yet again that in the right hands, theory and practice can and do inform and infuse each other. In the haystack of contemporary China books, this is a precious needle.Õ Ð Oded Shenkar, Ohio State University, US ÔThis work is an excellent example of a joint businessÐacademic collaboration on telling the story of how a major business evolved successfully with its environment Ð an environment in which most businesses have found it difficult to operate and most researchers have found it a challenge to explain. Through meticulous research, the research team explains with solid facts and strong theory how a business influenced its highly complex and ambiguous political environment through developing strategic relationships. This project is a model for conducting relevant research that the management field desperately needs. It is exemplary of engaged scholarship that merges the best of scholarship and practice. Both academics and executives will find this book a treasure of ideas.Õ Ð Anne Tsui, Arizona State University, US ÔThe Dynamics of Corporate Co-evolution provides an excellent exploration of co-evolution from the perspective of power relations within a hierarchical system. It is relevant not only to firms working within a political environment, but also useful for people working in think tanks and policy analysis. Its treatment of relationship management has universal implications.Õ Ð Huijiong Wang, The State Council, PRC Offering insights of unusual richness, this book examines one of the worldÕs most important business environments to determine the way that organizations can develop through interaction with their environments. It fills a gap in our understanding of the evolution of the Chinese business environment and throws light on the theory of co-evolution in order to inspire management practice. Written on the basis of a collaboration between a leading business manager and renowned university scholars, this groundbreaking book makes a significant contribution both to theory and practice of competitive strategy.
Download or read book Hong Kong as Asia s Central Business District written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Designer s Guide to the Dynamic Response of Structures written by A.P. Jeary and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the dynamic behaviour of a variety of structures under loading actions, such as wind storms and earthquakes. The book can be used to help with the prediction of the dynamic response of structures indicated by a unified systems approach, and compares this method with the results of full-scale studies of the in-service performance of real structures. A worldwide selection of examples of the response of tall buildings, chimneys, bridges, dams, offshore structures and floors is given, illustrated by many photographs and diagrams. The position of codes of practice and their relation to a full design study is also discussed. Examples of the assessment of extreme value data, the calculation of response, the results of forced vibration tests and examples of the use of the Laplace Transform for the calculation of response are provided in appendices.
Download or read book Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development written by Ashok K. Dutt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This double-volume work focuses on socio-demographics and the use of such data to support strategic resource management and planning initiatives. Papers go beyond explanations of methods, technique and traditional applications to explore new intersections in the dynamic relationship between the utilization and management of resources, and urban development. International authors explore numerous experiences, characteristics of development and decision-making influences from across Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as recounting examples from America and Africa. Papers propound techniques and methods used in geographical research such as support vector machines, socio-economic correlates and travel behaviour analysis. In this volume the contributors examine cutting-edge theories explaining diversity and dynamics in urban development. Topics covered include human vulnerability to hazards, space and urban problematic, assessment and evaluation of regional urban systems and structures and urban transformations as a result of structural change, economic development and underdevelopment. The significance of these topics lie in the pace and volume of change as is happening in geography reflecting continued development within established fields of inquiry and the introduction of significantly new approaches during the last decade. Readers are invited to consider the dynamics of spatial expansion of urban areas and economic development, and to explore conceptual discussion of the innovations in and challenges on urbanization processes, urban spaces themselves and both resource management and environmental management. Together, the two volumes contribute to the interdisciplinary literature on regional resources and urban development by collating recent research with geography at its core. Scholars of urban geography, human geography, urbanism and sustainable development will be particularly interested in this book.
Download or read book Urban Hong Kong written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Praxis Vol 1 written by Michael Arellanes II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architectural monograph of MA2 - Michael Arellanes II. The projects contained in the body of work "Praxis" spans from 2008 to 2015.
Download or read book Local Dynamics in an Era of Globalization written by Shahid Yusuf and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers discuss some of the major aspects of decentralization and urban change in the context of globalization.
Download or read book written by Frank Joseph Shulman and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A descriptively annotated, multidisciplinary, cross-referenced and extensively indexed guide to 2,395 dissertations that are concerned either in whole or in part with Hong Kong and with Hong Kong Chinese students and emigres throughout the world.
Download or read book Urban Land use in Hong Kong and Kowloon written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Human Geography written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 7278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition, Fourteen Volume Set embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the things that make people and places different. Questions of, for example, politics, economics, race relations and migration are introduced and discussed through a geographical lens. This updated edition will assist readers in their research by providing factual information, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, reviews of literature, and provocative topical discussions that will stimulate creative thinking. Presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage on the topic of human geography Contains extensive scope and depth of coverage Emphasizes how geographers interact with, understand and contribute to problem-solving in the contemporary world Places an emphasis on how geography is relevant in a social and interdisciplinary context
Download or read book The Political Economy of Urban Space written by Ming Ye (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Land use in Hong Kong and Kowloon The central business district its structure and development trend written by Jisen Liang and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures in Research written by Howard Wiarda and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard J. Wiarda is one of the leading global scholars of international relations, comparative politics, and foreign policy, and the author/editor of more than sixty books. Now in this highly personal and swashbuckling account, Professor Wiarda tells the stories that lie behind the research: his adventures in Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and South Africa. Complementing his academic work, these three volumes are filled with impressions, research findings, gossip, and preliminary ideas and concepts-the true "stuff" of how scholarly books get written. For Wiarda has had a remarkable life: in some of the nation's leading universities, academic policy work in the State and Defense Departments, and denizen of the Washington think tanks. He has also lived abroad for extensive periods and traveled widely in some of the world's most troubled and exciting places. These books tell the story of his "adventures in research".
