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    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Joseph Shulman
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9789622093973
  • Pages : 878 pages

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.

Book Urban Land Use Analysis

Download or read book Urban Land Use Analysis written by Jisen Liang and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Socio Economic Segregation and Income Inequality

Download or read book Urban Socio Economic Segregation and Income Inequality written by Maarten van Ham and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregation Thesis. Rising inequalities lead to rising levels of socio-economic segregation almost everywhere in the world. Levels of inequality and segregation are higher in cities in lower income countries, but the growth in inequality and segregation is faster in cities in high-income countries. This is causing convergence of segregation trends. Professionalisation of the workforce is leading to changing residential patterns. High-income workers are moving to city centres or to attractive coastal areas and gated communities, while poverty is increasingly suburbanising. As a result, the urban geography of inequality changes faster and is more pronounced than changes in segregation levels. Rising levels of inequality and segregation pose huge challenges for the future social sustainability of cities, as cities are no longer places of opportunities for all.

Book Comparative Urban Land Use Planning

Download or read book Comparative Urban Land Use Planning written by Les Stein and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, city planners and governments grapple with the challenges of urban planning using remarkably similar land use regimes. Yet the realisation is increasing that real urban problems – crime, decay, drug abuse, inequality, depression and alienation – are not easily solved by the classic devices of a strategic plan and a zoning map. Planning regimes are therefore in constant flux, as planners and governments adjust and experiment to address these problems, often with little awareness as to what they are trying to accomplish. In Comparative Urban Land Use Planning: Best Practice, Leslie A. Stein digs deeper, drawing on examples from around the world to discover the best practice responses to the critical issues of planning and urban social problems. Although every city has its own cultural and political milieu, patterns of change and levels of success can be discerned and universal lessons learned. By comparing different urban planning approaches and considering their underlying ideologies and assumptions, he proposes a more insightful approach to the role of land use planning. This book is both scholarly and emotional, expressing a great love of cities and calling for a more clear-eyed approach for their care.

Book Making Hong Kong

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pui-yin Ho
  • Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Release : 2018-09-28
  • ISBN : 1788117956
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Making Hong Kong written by Pui-yin Ho and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book provides a comprehensive survey of urban development in Hong Kong since 1841. Pui-yin Ho explores the ways in which the social, economic and political environments of different eras have influenced the city's development. From colonial governance, wartime experiences, high density development and adjustments before and after 1997 through contemporary challenges, this book explores forward-looking ideas that urban planning can offer to lead the city in the future. Evaluating the relationship between town planning and social change, this book looks at how a local Hong Kong identity emerged in the face of conflict and compromise between Chinese and European cultures. In doing so, it brings a fresh perspective to urban research, providing historical context and direction for the future development of the city. Hong Kong's urban development experience offers not only a model for other Chinese cities but also a better understanding of Asian cities more broadly. Urban studies scholars will find this an exemplary case study of a developing urban landscape. Town planners and architects will also benefit from reading this comprehensive book as it shows how Hong Kong can be taken to the next stage of urban development and modernisation.

Book Urban Development and Planning in Hong Kong

Download or read book Urban Development and Planning in Hong Kong written by Anthony G. O. Yeh and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Life and Development in Hong Kong

Download or read book Social Life and Development in Hong Kong written by Ambrose Y. C. King and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume, prepared by social scientists with different specializations, address selected aspects of Hong Kong's post-War development.

Book Hong Kong  Economic  Social  and Political Studies in Development  with a Comprehensive Bibliography

Download or read book Hong Kong Economic Social and Political Studies in Development with a Comprehensive Bibliography written by Tzong-Biau Lin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1979:

Book Land use Planning in Hong Kong

Download or read book Land use Planning in Hong Kong written by M. Roger Bristow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land use Transport Planning in Hong Kong

Download or read book Land use Transport Planning in Hong Kong written by Harry T. Dimitriou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume is certain to be the definitive work about the practice of land-use and transport planning in Hong Kong. Dimitriou and Cook explore the historical developments, current issues and problems, policy and planning responses and new directions. Hong Kong has experienced remarkable economic growth as the ‘Gateway to China’ and its land-use has become a model for other cities in the region and for China as a whole.

Book The Making of Hong Kong

Download or read book The Making of Hong Kong written by Barrie Shelton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism. The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the forest of towers are in fact vertical culs de sac; and how the city might become truly ‘volumetric’ with mixed activities through multiple levels and 3D movement networks incorporating ‘town cubes’ rather than town squares. For more information, visit the authors' website: http://www.makingofhk.com/makingofhk.swf

Book Urban Land Policies and Land use Control Measures  Asia and the Far East

Download or read book Urban Land Policies and Land use Control Measures Asia and the Far East written by United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Housing  Urban Renewal and Socio Spatial Integration

Download or read book Housing Urban Renewal and Socio Spatial Integration written by Xiaoxi Hui and published by TU Delft. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of A+BE addresses two critical urban issues China faces today: housing and urban renewal. In the recent two decades, the Chinese urban housing stock underwent a significant, if not extreme, transformation. From 1949 to 1998, the urban housing stock in China largely depended on the public sector, and a large amount of public housing areas were developed under the socialistic public housing system in Beijing and other Chinese cities. Yet in 1998, a radical housing reform stopped this housing system. Thus, most of the public housing stock was privatized and the urban housing provision was conferred to the market. The radical housing privatization and marketization did not really resolve but intensified the housing problem. Along with the high-speed urbanization, the alienated, capitalized and speculative housing stock caused a series of social and spatial problems. The Chinese government therefore attempted to reestablish the social housing system in 2007. However, the unbalanced structure of the Chinese urban housing stock has not been considerably optimized and the housing problem is still one of the most critical challenges in China.

Book Urban Land Rent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Haila
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2015-12-14
  • ISBN : 1118827686
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Urban Land Rent written by Anne Haila and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Urban Land Rent, Anne Haila uses Singapore as a case study to develop an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urban studies and urban theory. Provides a comprehensive analysis of land, rent theory, and the modern city Examines the question of land from a variety of perspectives: as a resource, ideologies, interventions in the land market, actors in the land market, the global scope of land markets, and investments in land Details the Asian development state model, historical and contemporary land regimes, public housing models, and the development industry for Singapore and several other cities Incorporates discussion of the modern real estate market, with reference to real estate investment trusts, sovereign wealth funds investing in real estate, and the fusion between sophisticated financial instruments and real estate

Book Hong Kong  Economic  Social  and Political Studies in Development  with a Comprehensive Bibliography

Download or read book Hong Kong Economic Social and Political Studies in Development with a Comprehensive Bibliography written by Tzong-Biau Lin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1979:

Book Urban Land Policies and Land use Control Measures

Download or read book Urban Land Policies and Land use Control Measures written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Privately Owned Public Space

Download or read book Privately Owned Public Space written by Jerold S. Kayden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-11-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York - wie auch in vielen anderen Großstädten - wächst die Zahl der öffentlichen Plätze, die Privatpersonen gehören und auch privat betrieben werden. Als Gegenleistung für die Schaffung dieser Plätze und Einrichtungen, erhalten die Erbauer von der Stadt Sonderkonzessionen (in der Regel für die Gebäudehöhe). Dieses Buch dokumentiert und beschreibt anhand von Fotos, Lageplänen und Karten über 300 öffentliche Plätze in New York, die in privater Hand sind. Zu den bekanntesten zählen u.a. das Trump Tower Atrium, die Sony Arkade und die Citicorp Mall. Jede Beschreibung enthält Informationen zu Größe, Fertigstellungsdatum, Architekten/Landschaftsarchitekten, Gebäudeeigentümer, Öffnungszeiten und Lage. Zu den Abbildungen gehört jeweils ein Foto sowie eine maßstabsgetreue Zeichnung, die verdeutlichen, wie sich der Bau in die angrenzende Gebäude-/Straßenlandschaft einpaßt. (y05/00)