Back to Everyday Life: Inspiration for Urban Design in the Continuous Metropolitan Transformation of Hong Kong

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-146
Author(s):  
Kin Wai Michael Siu ◽  
Yihua Huang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Design

scholarly journals Unbearable Significance, or: As Australians Put It …

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Martin
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Dead End

I am writing from another country, far away; I no longer live in Australia. Meaghan Morris is partly responsible for this. Let me explain. At the end of 2011, I found myself reading the transcript of a long interview with Meaghan conducted by a Melbourne-based researcher, Lauren Bliss. In this discussion, Meaghan comments on the move, in the course of her professional life, to Hong Kong: What I really wanted to do was what lots of students from Asia had been doing for decades, which is go and just live an everyday life in another country, have a job, and not go and study the society there as an academic specialty. Just go and know what it’s like to live as a foreigner working in a Chinese society.1 For many reasons, my life at that time had reached a kind of dead end; I felt that Australia had nothing more to offer me. Yet the thought of relocating elsewhere had never really occurred to me, or perhaps I had merely been successful in keeping that thought at bay.

Urban Design and Dilemmas of Space

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Madanipour
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Time Constant ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The City ◽  
Psychological Dimensions ◽  
Meaningful Communication

My aim in this paper is to find an understanding of the concept of space which could be used in urban design, but which could also be shared by others with an interest in space. Social scientists, geographers, architects, urban planners, and designers use the term space in their academic and professional involvement with the city. But when they meet each other their discourse seems to be handicapped partly because of a difference in their usage and understanding of the concept of space. I will argue that to arrive at a common platform in which a meaningful communication can become possible, we need to confront such fragmentation by moving towards a more unified concept of space. I will argue for a concept of space which would refer to our objective, physical space with its social and psychological dimensions, a dynamic conception which accommodates at the same time constant change and embeddedness, and that can only be understood in monitoring the way space is being made and remade, at the intersection of the development processes and everyday life.

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