Vision for a city

Vision for a City

Growing the city centre
Creating a liveable city
Shaping the city form
Supporting a socially inclusive city
Public domain
Urban design
Achieving a creative city
Economic diversity and prosperity
Access and movement around the city
Heritage
Celebrating the River
Sustainability
Developing Civic Place
Growing the city centre

Commercial office market,

Retail,
Public space,
A range of facilities -
cultural, medical,
education, tourism, and
recreational.
Residential living
environment
Creating a liveable and desirable city

Vibrant, attractive
providing a safe and
healthy environment in
which to live, work, visit
and invest.

The city will offer a wide

range of services,
experiences and housing
types to meet social and
recreational needs.
Shaping the city form

Future developments
should be concidered.
different Streets and
Riverside corridors should
play a major part as
generators of the new city
image and new built forms.
Supporting a socially inclusive city
To embrace and celebrate the
cultural linguistic and
religious diversity of the
community.

A wide range of cultural,

community, religious and
entertainment facilities will be
accessible for all people.
Enhancing strategies and
programs to encourage
people to engage and
participate in city life is a
priority to ensure a
harmonious, inclusive and
robust society.
Improving the quality of the public domain
The urban environment
should be an attractive,
legible and desirable
centre. The urban form
should be more
permeable.
High quality paving and
street lighting
Solar power and other
energy efficient
technologies.
Open space and
recreation facilities
linked by continuous
pedestrian and/or
cycleway network.
Improving the quality of urban design

Vibrant and strong identity,

strong sense of local identity
and variety, with robust,
flexible, adaptable forms of
development.
Achieving a creative city
Place of arts and cultural
activities

Development of creative
industries and activities,

Facilitating opportunities for

artists and the community to
celebrate the arts.
Developing economic diversity and prosperity in the city centre

The city should be

attractive to investors and
young people
Improving access and movement around the city
Park and other public open
spaces and places as well as
expanding and enhancing the
public domain with new and
improved fine grain, active,
north/south and east/west
pedestrian connections will
continue to improve access
and amenity for pedestrians
and bicycles.

Reliance on the use of private

vehicles should be reduced,
and there should be less
traffic flow within and to the
city, with a focus on alternate
forms of transport and the
creation of a city ring road to
improve the public transport
mode share.
Celebrating the special heritage

Cultural heritage should

be recognised and
celebrated. Access to
heritage buildings and key
sites should be facilitated,
it's significance
illuminated, and heritage
should be promoted and
managed as a major
cultural tourist asset.
Celebrating the River and activating the river's edge
The city should celebrate
River as a local and
regionally significant
asset .

The river's edge will be

activated through
strategic mixed use
development,
interpreting city’s unique
history and creating
further pedestrian
connections from key
sites .
Achieving greater sustainability
Ecological sustainability should
continue to be a requirement for
all development. Buildings and
public spaces should embrace
water and energy efficiency
strategies and long-life
principles.

Building heights should be

controlled to guarantee open
space has access to sunshine,
and a series of connected green
fingers should run through the
city and connect to the public
parks reducing ambient
temperatures. The native flora
and fauna should continue to be
protected through sensitive
development.
Developing Civic Place
The redevelopment of
Civic Place - a centre for
business, tourism,
entertainment, cultura and
heritage.

It is vital for achieving the

targets for future
employment growth

Building on the Public

Transport Interchange,
Civic Place will also create
a gateway to the city.
 Hong Kong

Sustainable urban development!!!!

 Hong Kong
• Laissez-faire policy
• Laissez-faire is short for "laissez faire, laissez aller, laissez passer," a
French phrase meaning "let do, let go, let pass." from the French dictionary
first used by the eighteenth century Physiocrats as an injunction against
government interference with trade, it became used as a synonym for strict
free market economics during the early and mid-19th century. It is generally
understood to be a doctrine opposing economic interventionism and
taxation by the state beyond that which is perceived to be necessary to
maintain peace, security, and property rights.

• The term laissez-faire often used interchangeably with the term "free
market." Some may use the term laissez-faire to refer to "let do, let pass"
attitude for concepts in areas outside of economics.
 Hong Kong
• Laissez-faire policy  economy  change  reflected
in urban form + topography + shortage of buildable
land collectively produced compact city
• High economic gain  real estate economy
• combined to produce economically and environmentally
sustainable city

• How Hong Kong evolved?

 Sustainable Model?
• Compact urban form
• Efficient transport system (mass transit)
• Compact urban form  by applying mixed
use, redevelopment of old low density
areas into high density
• Mass transit is possible due to high
density
Urban facilities:
• Public Realm
• Public Infrastructures
• Set Back for pedestrians
• Building linkages for overhead pedestrian
circulations
• Amenities: Shopping, restaurants