Query: hongkong urban planning system

title: Urban heritage conservation in Hong Kong: thefeasibility of adopting area based conservation approach under HongKong's planning system
abstract: At a time when the world is becoming more monotonous under the effect of globalization, diversity has become precious. To retain the different colours of culture, cultural heritage conservation has been widely practiced in many countries. Starting from the 1970s, international conservation organizations have been advocating for area based conservation. They believe that the goal of heritage conservation, which includes the conservation of both tangible and intangible assets, can be better achieved by conserving areas at an urban scale. In order to facilitate area based conservation, many countries have integrated conservation with town planning. In Hong Kong, heritage conservation does not protect areas at an urban scale. It only serves an advisory function to town planning and fails to protect the landscape around historic buildings/sites. Under the fast pace of development, this building based conservation approach has created a fragmented cityscape of Hong Kong as bits and bobs of historic structures are surrounded by incompatible features such as parking garage, flyovers, highways and skyscrapers. This ruins the spirit of the place, decreases the heritage value of the site and consequently diminishes the character of the city. This study attempts to improve heritage conservation in Hong Kong by finding out the feasibility of setting up conservation areas in the city. It explores the importance of heritage conservation, the significance of area based conservation, and the success factors for setting conservation areas in Singapore, which has shown successful in preserving historic districts and areas of special character by area based conservation. By reviewing Hong Kong"s current practice in heritage conservation and town planning against these success factors, several recommendations are conducted at the end.

title: The Research on Zhuhai Urban Cooperative Distribution System Based on Planning Demand
abstract: With the rapid development of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, the completion and operation of the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge project, the region has already had the mature conditions for building a core city and a transportation hub on the west coast of the Pearl River. Against this background, studying how to build an intensive and efficient city common distribution system which will provide an important support for the construction project of key international logistics center in South China in Zhuhai City will have important practical significance for Zhuhai's urban economic development.  Guangdong HongKong Macao Greater Bay Area; Sustainable Development; Urban Logistics; Common Distribution

title: A Study on the Foreign Korean Railway Station Transfer System and Implications
abstract: Recently the Korean Government is increasing investment and interest on railway in the transportation field as "low carbon and green growth" policy becomes main national development strategy. While railway competitiveness is weakening over the road from the inconvenient door todoor and transfer system of railway, it is meaningful to review excellent railway transfer system of advanced countries and adapt their implications for Korea. Their transfer systems like Japan, Hongkong, France, U.K. and German can be categorized in this research as kinds of transfer connectivity system and transfer facility flow planning, and, as a result, their implications can be concluded. Also, analyzing transfer system of Korea's main stations and reviewing the difference between Korea and other countries, this paper suggests main principles, directions of urban planning, alignment of rail line, and partnership of project stakeholder in the establishment of transfer system in the railway station in the future.

title: haeoesaryereul tonghan ceoldoyeog hwanseungcegye sisajeom yeongu
abstract: Recently the Korean Government is increasing investment and interest on railway in the transportation field as "low carbon and green growth" policy become main national development strategy. While railway competitiveness is weakening over the road from the inconvenient door to door and transfer system of railway, it is meaningful to review excellent railway transfer system of advanced countries and adapt their implications for Korea. Their transfer systems like Japan, Hongkong, France, U.K. and German can be categorized in this research as kinds of transfer connectivity system and transfer facility flow planning, and, as a result, their implications can be concluded. Also, analyzing transfer system of Korea's main stations and reviewing the difference between Korea and other countries, this paper suggests main principles and directions of urban planning, alignment of rail line, partnership of project stakeholder in the establishment of transfer system in the railway station in the future.

title: Financialization, Urban Governance and the Planning System: Utilizing 'Development Viability' as a Policy Narrative for the Liberalization of Ireland's Post Crash Planning System
abstract: Drawing upon the Irish case, this article explores the interaction between the financialized economy and the urban planning system. While considerable scholarship has examined the financialization of real estate, it remains unclear how planning systems are being repurposed to facilitate a finance led regime of urban growth or how the ?real estate?financial complex? seeks to enact planning policy transformations that support its interests. This article explores how such actors have advanced the concept of ?financial viability of development? as a means of influencing the post crisis re regulation of Irish planning policy. This group has argued that housing construction in post crash Ireland is unviable given the high development finance costs, onerous planning gain contributions and the lack of development certainty in the planning process. As such, housing construction has been at an all time low, leading to a new crisis in affordable housing provision. In response, a complicit state has further liberalized the planning system, introducing an array of policies that are evermore facilitative of development interests. Empirical findings, based on interviews with developers, lobbyists and planners, emphasize the importance of informal access to policymakers, the wielding of ?expert knowledge? and media management to co opt the state into adopting financial viability within planning policymaking.

title: Environmental discourses in China's urban planning system: A scaled discourse analytical perspective
abstract: The past two decades have witnessed a growing body of research that draws on post structuralist theory to interrogate environmental discourses in planning. Grounded in the interpretative tradition, this approach rejects essentialist ontology to assume environmental discourses being socially constructed and linked to different policy arenas at multiple geographical scales. Widely applied in the environmental politics and planning studies in advanced capitalism, the scaled discourse analysis has not yet been deployed in China's context. This paper will use this approach to interpret the political and scalar construction of the environmental discourses in China's urban planning system. It has developed two primary arguments. First, there exist multiple narratives of 'environment' instead of a single narrative. The environmental discourses in planning depend on how the political regime makes sense of environmental phenomenon rather than simply the urgency of that phenomenon. The second argument builds upon the first one to contend that the formation and legitimisation of environmental discourses in planning is a power laden process through which multiple narratives are contested at interlocking scales. These arguments are elaborated upon through a discussion of the changing environmental discourses in four post 1978 master plans of Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong Province in South China.

title: Effects of Public Perception on Urban Planning: Evolution of an Inclusive Planning System during Crises in Latvia
abstract: This article explores changes in public perception of urban planning practice in Latvia during a period of economic crisis. Detailed analyses of the development of the planning systems in Latvia after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and restoration of independence (in 1991) are used to trace changes in public perception of urban planning over two decades during both economic upturns and downturns, beginning with the transition period from centralised planning during the totalitarian era to an inclusive planning system in a democratic society. Economic data describing the crisis and survey data gauging public reaction to them are used to synthesise evidence about public participation in urban planning exercises. Findings suggest that external factors strongly impact community perceptions of planning and that the public is willing to engage after first achieving individual goals. Events in Latvia in recent years suggest that crises serve as triggers for community engagement in planning and turning po.

title: The evolution of the urban planning system in contemporary China: an institutional approach
abstract: The institutional approach needs to be established as the new 'focus' for exploring changes and capacity building in the planning systems in developing countries. This article analyses the planning system in China using institutional change theory. Ultimately, the political transition from a centrally planned system to a market system and related governance reforms were the basic drivers behind the evolution of the planning system in China. While top down supply induced institutional change in the planning system is still the most common, more recently bottom up forces have increased dramatically, such as the growth of civil society, the appearance of the middle class and the increasing autonomy of local governments. Until recently, planning ideas and theories imported from Western countries have greatly influenced local plan making in the context of globalisation. However, many traditions of socialist planning for example, maintaining social control and generating economic growth coexist due to path

title: GIS based surface roughness evaluation in the urban planning system to improve the wind environment A study in Wuhan, China
abstract: Due to the rapid urbanisation, the urban environment has been changed and deteriorated. One of reasons is lack of consideration and implementation of climatic and environmental information in urban planning. Thus, there is a need to develop a systematic method for city planners and policy makers to make scientific and evidence based decisions in the urban climatic and environmental field. Taking Wuhan as an example, this study aims to provide a practical framework to identify planning goals and guidelines for master and district planning, based on the results of roughness modelling. Both meteorological information and 3D urban morphology data were simplified and integrated in a Geographical Information System (GIS) to provide the detailed information of the urban permeability distribution. Based on this spatial distribution information, both master and district planning goals for better urban wind environment can be particularly identified and corresponding planning strategies can be established. With this spatial urban permeability information and the joint effort from local town plans and policy makers of the Planning Bureau of Government, urban planning strategies for different spatial scales and districts can well corporate with each other and be interwoven into the whole urban planning process.

title: 'Environment' as an evolving concept in China's urban planning system
abstract: This paper provides an interpretation of the nature of 'environment' as a growing concept in China's urban planning system. It argues that environment takes on three properties in planning: (1) a policy area operating within a complex web of state bodies, regulated by acts of different sectoral actors, (2) an aggregate of scaled spaces, each with their own operational strategies and environmental understanding and (3) a concept in proliferation, bounded up with a temporality of past, present and future. These arguments are elaborated through a discussion of the changing environmental discourses in the planning of Shenzhen, 1980 to 2010.