Urban Planning

10 May 2013

His suggestion comes amid fears that the dream of a continuous promenade along the new waterfront created by reclamation in Central and Wan Chai will not be realised.

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Creative solutions to give noisy Hong Kong a rare slice of silence

3 May 2013

Cities, workplaces, stores and homes are meticulously planned in terms of their construction, efficiency and cost, but little thought goes into how they sound.

5:17AM

Unease at planned reclamation projects in Hong Kong

29 Apr 2013

Reclamation has for more than a century been the easy option to cope with growing demand for space in Hong Kong. Nine green groups oppose the reclamation proposals which have sparked critical...

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Town Planning Board not 'obsequious'

22 Apr 2013

I refer to Alex Lo's column ("Planning watchdog on a tight leash", April 17) in which various doubts over the Town Planning Board are raised. I am obliged to state the facts.

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Urban planners must do more to give us some breathing space

19 Apr 2013

While recent proposals by the Environment Bureau to control vehicles' exhaust fumes have received much attention, it is also worth highlighting the role urban planning can play in reducing...

2:48AM

Managing China's urban spread

21 Mar 2013

Increasing the size of metropolitan areas anchored by large cities may be the most effective way to develop midsize and small cities in China, as it has been elsewhere.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

Updated 4:03AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Singapore and Hong Kong swap notes on making cities more liveable

After conducting a study in 2011 on sustainable development in Hong Kong, the Urban Land Institute, a non-profit research group, teamed-up with the Centre for Liveable Cities in Singapore to study...

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2 community sites in Sai Kung to be used for flats, town planners say

The land, located near the Sai Kung town centre, is to be converted from community use to housing. Both sites combined are expected to yield almost 380 public flats.

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Talking Points

Former TVB general manager Stephen Chan Chi-wan and his former assistant, Edthancy Tseng Pei-kun, learn their fate in their bribery case. District Court Judge Poon Siu-tung is reconsidering his...

2:35AM

DEVELOPMENT

Rezoning plan for PLA dock will limit access to harbourfront promenade

A rezoning proposal for 150 metres of harbourfront land - issued by the government during the Lunar New Year holiday week - puts flesh on the bones of a deal struck by China and Britain in 1994...

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ON SECOND THOUGHT

Underground may be the way to go in solving Hong Kong's housing woes

HKU managed to create space to solve its land shortage problem by moving three service reservoirs into rock caverns excavated in the adjacent hillside.

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CONCRETE ANALYSIS

Clear plan needed to address land supply and housing issues

Not surprisingly, the state of the real estate market, particularly the residential sector, has been the subject of much discussion since the new administration took office in July and began an...

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