Tree-Canopy Characteristics and Urban Development in Hong Kong

1989 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 210 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Y. Jim
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Tree Canopy

scholarly journals Miami-Dade County Urban Tree Canopy Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartwig Hochmair ◽  
◽  
Adam Benjamin ◽  
Daniel Gann ◽  
Levente Juhasz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Tree Canopy ◽  
Dade County ◽  
Impervious Surfaces ◽  
Vector Data ◽  
Bare Ground ◽  
Urban Tree ◽  
Wetland Water ◽  
Urban Tree Canopy

This assessment focuses on describing urban tree canopy (UTC) within the Urban Development Boundary of Miami-Dade County, as defined by the Miami-Dade County Transportation Planning Organization (Figure 1). The area (intracoastal water areas excluded) encompasses approximately 1147 km2 (443 mi2). A combination of remote sensing and publicly available vector data was used to classify the following land cover classes: tree canopy/shrubs, grass, bare ground, wetland, water, building, street/railroad, other impervious surfaces, and cropland.

E-Government Development in Nanhai City, China

2011 ◽  
pp. 511-516
Author(s):  
Y. Yongling
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Application ◽  
National Information ◽  
The City

Nanhai is a small city which belongs to Foshan City (a district can also be called a city in some cities of China) and lies in the central part of Guangdong province. It is in the hinterland of Pearl River Delta, close to Hong Kong and Macau. It was in 1995 that the city began to develop e-government. In September of 1996, it became one of the first cities that started to operate the Internet in China. Since 1999, the city had transferred into the period of Internet application. It became the national experimental field of an informalization process in 2000 and of an e-government application project and national information security project in 2001. However, since 2002, lots of problems have been appearing due to overemphasis on the construction of an information infrastructure and noticeable projects. Chinese e-government has been at the stage of a realistic period, with data shared among departments since 2000. Some weaknesses of the appraised projects have been appearing because of short service for urban development and the requirements from the city administration. Therefore, this case is just a description of the periodical success and would be a problematic case of the process of Chinese e-government.

scholarly journals URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH-EAST ASIAN CITY REGIONS: THE CASE OF KUALALUMPUR AND HONGKONG

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suharto Teriman ◽  
Tan Yigitcanlar ◽  
Mayere Severine
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
City Regions

Major South-East Asian city-regions have experienced considerable physical, economic and social transformations during the past three decades. The rapid pace of globalisation and economic restructuring has resulted in these city-regions receiving the full impact of urbanisation pressures. In an attempt to ease these pressures, city-regions such as Bangkok, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur have advocate growth management approaches giving particular interest to urban sustainability. These approaches promote efforts to achieve the triple bottom line sustainability by balancing economic and social development, and environmental protection, and putting more emphasis on compact and optimum development of urban forms. This paper evaluates the case of two South-East Asian city-regions, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, and assesses their experiences in managing their urban forms whilst promoting sustainable patterns of urban development. The findings show that sustainable urban development initiatives employing a top down approach has yielded encouraging results in these case study city-regions. However the need for a more concerted effort towards the overall sustainability agenda still remains vital.

Moving Forward Together: An Introduction

Global Cities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gottlieb ◽  
Simon Ng
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Goods Movement ◽  
Quality Water ◽  
Policy Institute

This chapter serves as an Introduction to the book. It discusses the book’s origins and the connections between the authors and their respective organizations – the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute and Civic Exchange. It describes how Los Angeles and Hong Kong and several Chinese cities such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou have emerged as global cities, the urban development strategies they have pursued, and the urban environmental challenges they face. It answers the question, why a book about Los Angeles and Hong Kong and their connection to China and identifies for all three places the six urban environmental areas that will be analyzed – ports and goods movement, air quality, water supply and water quality, the food environment, transportation, and open and public space.

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