The Making of Hong Kong
内容简介
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.
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作者简介
Barrie Shelton is Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne
Justyna Karakiewicz is Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne
Thomas Kvan is Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne
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目录
1. A State of IntenCity
2. Precedents
3. Long, Low and Intense: From Possession Point to World War II
4. Massing and Rising: The Post-War Decades
5. Vertical and Volumetric: Post 1980
6. Podium and Tower
7. Emerging Volumetric: Components
8. Conclusion: Vertical and Volumetric Postscript: Advancing the Volumetric on Old District and New Territory Sites
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读书文摘
不管一个地方形式上的特性是多么顽固，隧道都是对地形的否定：隧道试图把城市简化成线条、节点和抽象。旅行变成了一种掩蔽的而非暴漏的体验；它不再是穿越一系列的地区，而更多地是点到点。因此，这一系列的隧道改变了对香港地形和城市景观的体验，重构了香港居民的心里地图，并改变了他们对时间的感觉。
香港的成功，反讽之一是，尽管固守资本主义的自由市场式发展，但英国政府却像社会主义那样牢牢地抓住土地的所有权和控制权，从出售连续租赁的土地的开发权中获得主要的税收。世界上没有其他任何一个政府，无论资本主义的还是共产主义的，能够持续、高效、广泛地在如此漫长的时间里保持这样一种政策。
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