URBAN OPEN SPACE SYSTEM IN NORTHERN KOWLOON PENINSULA: AN EMERGING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK IN HONG KONG

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koon Kwai WONG
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Space System ◽  
Urban Open Space ◽  
Infrastructure Network

“Green Infrastructure” Concept as an Effective Medium to Manipulating Sustainable Urban Development

2012 ◽  
pp. 1358-1377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adnan Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Planning History ◽  
Urban Open Space ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Metropolitan Cities

This chapter aims at exploring and conceptualizing green infrastructure (GI) as a comprehensive system in planning schemes of metropolitan cities such as Melbourne (Australia) and Izmir (Türkiye). Urban open space network(s) and its further step, “GI,” stretches out from the urban core through its periphery. This requires investigation of the planning hierarchy between metropolitan planning and urban design with a focus on connectivity and urban sustainability. Supporting and managing physical development, modes of transportation, and social life, GI provides ecological and social services to cities in pursuit of sustainable development. Following the scrutiny of Melbourne’s GI and its relevance to the planning history, this work undertakes a comparative analysis between Melbourne and Izmir in order to address the development of a metropolitan GI system for these cities. Such an approach would support policies and strategies relating to sustainable urban development.

“Green Infrastructure” Concept as an Effective Medium to Manipulating Sustainable Urban Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 234-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adnan Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Planning History ◽  
Urban Open Space ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Metropolitan Cities

This chapter aims at exploring and conceptualizing green infrastructure (GI) as a comprehensive system in planning schemes of metropolitan cities such as Melbourne (Australia) and Izmir (Türkiye). Urban open space network(s) and its further step, “GI,” stretches out from the urban core through its periphery. This requires investigation of the planning hierarchy between metropolitan planning and urban design with a focus on connectivity and urban sustainability. Supporting and managing physical development, modes of transportation, and social life, GI provides ecological and social services to cities in pursuit of sustainable development. Following the scrutiny of Melbourne’s GI and its relevance to the planning history, this work undertakes a comparative analysis between Melbourne and Izmir in order to address the development of a metropolitan GI system for these cities. Such an approach would support policies and strategies relating to sustainable urban development.

Central urban open space system and green economy planning based on spatial clustering algorithms and AHP model

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 5785-5795
Author(s):  
Lu Mei ◽  
Li Qi
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
Clustering Algorithms ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Space System ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Ahp Model ◽  
Urban Open Space

Urban open space is of great significance to the compact urban center. It is not only a place for people’s public life, but also an ecological regulator in the compact and high-density urban environment. It has important ecological, cultural, economic and other functions for the development of the compact urban center. In this paper, the authors analyze the central urban open space system and green economy planning based on spatial clustering algorithms and ahp model. The results shows that the difference on green open space is much more easily becoming bigger in fast urbanization. This is also the key to improve the quality of regional urban open space at present. By analyzing the spatial pattern of urban open space system at different times by ArcGIS. We found that, in the late period of rapid urbanization, spatial differentiation is more obvious. Under the guidance of landscape, the research on the integration strategy of the open space in the compact urban center will help to establish the integration system of the open space in the compact urban center and enrich the dimension of urban landscape design. At the same time, this research realizes the intensive utilization of the space in the urban center.

Unravelling Layers of Colonial and Post-Colonial Open Space Planning and Heritage: The Identity of [Padang] Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Nadiyanti Mat Nayan ◽  
David S Jones ◽  
Suriati Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Urban Open Space ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
International Publishing

In 1880, when the British moved their Federated Malay States administrative centre to Kuala Lumpur, the Padang quickly became a symbol of British economic and administrative colonisation, and a nucleus of the socio-cultural development of Kuala Lumpur. This paper discusses the layers of history, symbolism and cultural values that the Padang contributes to the socio-cultural tapestry of both Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia, and the lack of relevant planning and heritage measures to conserve these attributes and characteristics. The conclusions offer avenues to engage with pre- and post-colonisation that enable re-making and the conservation of the iconic space of Kuala Lumpur.Keywords: Urban open space; Merdeka Square; Kuala Lumpur City Hall; National Heritage Act 2005eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v4i11.1721

scholarly journals The legal street: a scarcity approach to urban open space in mobility transitions

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett J. M. Petzer ◽  
Anna J. Wieczorek ◽  
Geert P. J. Verbong
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
National Level ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Urban Open Space ◽  
Space Allocation ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
Lock In ◽  
The Eu

AbstractAn urban mobility transition requires a transition in space allocation, since most mobility modes are dependent on urban open space for circulation and the storage of vehicles. Despite increasing attention to space and spatiality in transitions research, the finite, physical aspects of urban space, and the means by which it is allocated, have not been adequately acknowledged as an influence on mobility transitions. A conceptual framework is introduced to support comparison between cities in terms of the processes by which open space is (re-)distributed between car and bicycle circulatory and regulatory space. This framework distinguishes between regulatory allocation mechanisms and the appropriation practices of actors. Application to cases in Amsterdam, Brussels and Birmingham reveal unique relationships created by the zero-sum nature of urban open space between the dominant automobility mode and subordinate cycling mode. These relationships open up a new approach to forms of lock-in that work in favour of particular mobility modes within the relatively obdurate urban built environment. Empirically, allocation mechanisms that routinise the production of car space at national level within the EU are shown to be far more prevalent than those for bicycle space, highlighting the constraints faced by radical city-level policies aimed at space reallocation.

Open space office: A review of the literature and Hong Kong case studies

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Lawrence W.C. Lai ◽  
K.W. Chau ◽  
Stephen N.G. Davies ◽  
Locinda Kwan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Harvard Business Review ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
Actual Design ◽  
Open Plan ◽  
Office Layouts ◽  
Sociological Studies

BACKGROUND: Open plan or open space office has become increasingly popular but those who promote the concept selfdom refer to health studies or workers’ perceptions of a change in office layout towards an open space arrangement. OBJECTIVE: To review the literature on open plan or open space office layouts in terms of facilities management (FM) with users’ perception in mind and to obtain opinions of users of open space offices of for a better appreciation of the FM issues. METHODS: A literature search of research papers from 2007 in journals using the keywords “open plan office” and “open space office” plus “health”, first in the titles then in the text, was carried out. Thirty-two of those papers, accessible by the authors’ institutions, were consulted together with 5 other works in the Harvard Business Review. The review consulted but excluded papers and reports published or sponsored by commercial firms that were in favour of open space layouts. Case studies were conducted by face to face meetings in confidence with workers in the middle managements of twelve Hong Kong organisations known as friends to two of the authors. Problems as seen by staff are reported and discussed. RESULTS: The literature review reveals that apart from writing that promotes the use of an open plan office layout, a host of scientific works point to the problems of perceived dissatisfaction with such a layout, the nature of the dissatisfaction tending to depend on the actual design. Most workers interviewed disliked the new style open plan layouts, which points to the necessity of consulting workers when such changes are contemplated, as well as monitoring the results of the change once it is in place whether against workers’ wishes or with their support. There is a need for a number of facility arrangements in making a change to open plan that ensures that worker needs for proper lighting, privacy, and indoor health will be met. CONCLUSIONS: If the aim of a change to an open plan arrangement is to promote collegial communications in office, the study sheds light on the extent to which such arrangements may not in practice be suitable for achieving the aim. It follows that further, more specifically sociological studies of workers’ job satisfaction and emotional health in open plan office settings would be worth doing.

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