Taipo - Landscaping for a New Town
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Building journal Hong Kong China, Jul, 1990, pp. 79-84
Abstract
While landscaping works carried out by the Territory Development Department (TDD) in Taipo are not unique, they have made Taipo one of the more successful new towns from a landscaping point of view. This article, by TDD senior landscape architect Christopher Fair explains how this success has been achieved by the co-ordinating function of the North East New Territories Development Office landscape section between 1981 and 1988.
(1) Setting the basis
(2) Urgent needs
(3) Natural rejuvenation
(4) Replanting the hills
(5) Greening the infrastructure
(6) Central area works
(7) Establishing a character
(8) Taking on city central
(9) Designing people places
(10) Town park
(11) Upcoming developments
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Date
1990
Language
en