Select case study findings from comprehensive urban renewal in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong Papers in Design and Development, v.1, 1998, pp. 109-120
Abstract
This paper examines aspects of the comprehensive-infill debate ongoing within redevelopment research. Two urban renewal projects in Hong Kong serve as case study. Findings support a comprehensive approach to urban redevelopment that mitigates negative displacement effects, in particular poor rehousing options. Key issues are: project phasing to increase in-situ rehousing for elderly persons; citizen participation at the issue-driven level; social integration through government intervention; and physical integration of 'block' type redevelopment and its amenities in the existing neighbourhood context. Structural determinants of successful comprehensive redevelopment are also suggested: employment distribution, mixed housing and office development, and public intervention in land resumption, zoning rehousing, and democratic planning.
(1) Introduction
(2) Rationale
(3) Limitations
(4) Issues of redevelopment in theory
(a) Comprehensiveness
(b) Elderly vunerability
(c) Intervention and gentrification
(d) Local findings: comprehensiveness, intervention and citizen participation
(5) Case study
(6) Elderly relocation outcomes
(a) Transient quarters
(b) Cash compensation
(c) Combined living arrangements
(d) Purpose-built elderly housing and dormitory space
(7) Social and physical integration, or gentrification?
(8) Citizen participation
(9) Discussion
(10) Conclusions
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1998
Language
en