By Charlie Q. L. Xue
ISBN-10: 981101003X
ISBN-13: 9789811010033
ISBN-10: 9811010048
ISBN-13: 9789811010040
This publication makes a speciality of the transformation from colonial to worldwide – the formation, mechanism, occasions, works and folks relating to city structure. The booklet unearths hardships the town encountered within the Nineteen Fifties and the glamour loved within the Nineteen Eighties. It depicts the private and non-private advancements, and particularly the general public housing which has sheltered hundreds of thousands of citizens. the writer identifies the architects practicing within the adolescence and the representatives of a emerging new release after the Nineteen Eighties. struggling with land scarcity and a dense surroundings, the city improvement of Hong Kong has some time past 70 years met the altering calls for of fluctuating monetary actions and a emerging inhabitants. structure at the island has been formed via social calls for, the economic climate and expertise. The structures were cast through the govt, consumers, planners, architects, many contractors and end-users. The equipped atmosphere nurtures our lifestyles and is visible facts of how town has built. Hong Kong is a key to East Asia within the Pacific period. The publication is a must-read for a radical realizing the modern background and structure of this oriental pearl.
Endorsement:
“Hong Kong units an severe instance of hyper-density dwelling. MTR’s Kowloon Station venture provided my company the original chance to give a contribution to a brand new form of absolutely built-in 3 dimensional delivery mega-structure, conceived as a well-connected position for individuals to stay, paintings and play. via Charlie Xue’s ebook, you could see how a compact urban works and excessive density built-in improvement shows a sustainable direction for contemporary urban making.”
Sir Terry Farrell, CBE, valuable, Farrells
"Well researched and refreshingly good established, Charlie Xue's most up-to-date e-book comprehensively exhibits how Hong Kong's post-war city structure either tracks and symbolizes the previous British colony's upward thrust to good fortune - a needs to learn for structure and tradition buffs alike."
Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of structure and concrete layout, Harvard college unusual carrier Professor.
“An crucial addition to the turning out to be literature on chinese language structure, the name of the ebook belies the total scope of Xue’s wide heritage. masking Hong Kong’s postwar transition from defeated colony to Pacific Age energy residence, Xue expertly strains the evolution of the city’s bold and leading edge courses of built-in excessive density city layout and infrastructure, in addition to altering architectural models. In a time whilst many Western governments have all yet deserted public housing courses, Xue’s ebook is a well timed reminder of what should be achieved.”
Professor Chris Abel, writer of Architecture and Identity, Architecture, expertise and technique and The prolonged Self.<
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The non-profit Hong Kong Housing Society obtained land at one-third the market price and government welfare funding covered the site formation costs. Moreover, the government provided low-interest loans for building. To help its employees, the government launched a project that encouraged local civil servants from the pensionable establishment to form co-operative housing societies to which land would be offered at one third the upset price and loans could be made on easy terms. 4 Supporting the Industry 15 Fig.
The annual report that year described “serious overcrowding” and recorded that “many of the newcomers … had no knowledge of urban life and were ignorant of the rudiments of sanitation. ” The tremendous pressure created by too many people trying to squeeze into far too few houses posed tough problems for the government. 3 In addition to physical building, the complex housing economies and especially the landlord-tenant relationship had to be restored. The great influx of people during the Sino-Japanese War led to the passing in 1938 of the Prevention of Eviction Ordinance, which conferred upon tenants a certain measure of protection against excessive rent and eviction.
See Spence (1990). 3 About the natural and artificial disasters in China mainly caused by Communist Party’s wrong policy from 1958 onward, see Dikotter (2010). 4 The median age of 1961 was from Fauer (2003). Compared with 2012, 50 years later, the median age was 43, people over 65 years old accounted for 13 % of all population. From Hong Kong Government, Economic Report (2013). 1 Welfare Housing and Modernist Architectural Ideal 23 for the low-income workers. Resettlement housing mentioned in Chap.