scholarly journals AB044. Healthy ageing and socio-physical environments: re-designing high-rise housing estates in compact Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. AB044-AB044
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. H. Chiu ◽  
Bo Kyong Seo
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Healthy Ageing ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Housing Estates

Open Building Implementation In High-Rise Residential Buildings In Hong Kong

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Wai Kin Lau ◽  
Daniel Chi Wing Ho
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Floor Plans ◽  
Building Characteristics ◽  
Existing Housing ◽  
Housing Estates

Aging of building stock is emerging. Open Building as a sustainable approach to deal with the problems associated with the aging housing stock is seldom applied in high-rise, densely populated built environment. With aims to identify the constraints and seek rooms for Open Building implementation in aforementioned context, a survey of 495 building layout plans from ten major housing estates in Hong Kong is conducted. The floor plans are analysed against the Open Building characteristics and criteria laid down by Tiuri (1998). Facts and obstacles of achieving Open Building in the territory are unearthed, and opportunities for implementation are then discussed. The layout and structure of the surveyed private residential buildings in Hong Kong are very much alike. They are in fact closed buildings without the capacity to adapt, so any change in user requirements cannot be accommodated easily. Implementing Open Building using flexible and green fittings remains a viable option that enables transformation in existing housing stock.

In whose best interests? Regulating childcare environments in Australia

2021 ◽  
pp. 183693912110501
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Morrissey ◽  
Deborah Moore
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emergency Evacuation ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Childcare Centre ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Outdoor Space

This conceptual model paper uses systems theory to explain how key elements in the Australian policy and regulatory context lead to three issues of concern in childcare centre physical environments: siting of centres on busy roads; lack of outdoor space; and, emergency evacuation in high-rise buildings. Drawing on evidence from prior studies and policy documents through desktop research, as well as childcare centre visits and communications with stakeholders and experts, we confirmed these issues as threats to children’s health, safety, development and well-being. Adapting Goekler’s ‘iceberg model’ of systems theory, we identified a dominance of commercial childcare property interests and complex and conflicting policy and regulatory structures, as explanatory elements leading to outcomes that conflict with children’s best interests.

An Autonomous Robotic Cladding Inspector for High-rise Buildings in Hong Kong

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert T. P. So ◽  
Tommy Y. Lo ◽  
W. L. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
High Rise

Factors Critical for Improving Intergenerational Mobility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chim Richard Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Social Program ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Housing Estates

Failure to appreciate theimportant fact that poverty propagated itself in the absence of a parent or a social program that had time to help young childrenhas allowed child poverty to fester, compromising children’s ability to go to school, their willingness to learn, their attitudes, and their motivation. This is a major cause of worsening intergenerational mobility and poverty. The research findings of Chetty et al. confirm the importance of investing in schooling, of having stable families, and of building communities to provide positive encouragement and support for the disadvantaged. The isolated, remote public housing estates we have in Hong Kong are unlikely to foster such communities.The findings from the US and Hong Kong strongly suggest that public sector housing policy to subsidize low-income families should be changed from providing subsidized rental housing units to homeownership units. This would have three different effects for increasing intergenerational mobility among low-income households.

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