Heritage conservation and urban regeneration : promoting sustainable tourism and sustainable community in Hong Kong : a case study of Sheung Wan Fong

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wing-yee Kwan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Sustainable Community

scholarly journals URBAN REGENERATION FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally McDonald ◽  
Naglis Malys ◽  
Vida Malienė
Keyword(s):  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
The Uk

Over the past few decades, cities have been subjected to severe social and economic pressures, which have had a disproportionate impact on the urban environment. Consequently, this has increased the concentration of the most deprived households in the worst urban neighbourhoods. The UK Governments have attempted to tackle the physical, social and economic consequences of these changes through a variety of mechanisms and policy initiatives with varying degrees of success. The current objective can be interpreted as an attempt to implement regeneration projects or create sustainable communities/places through multi‐agency or partnership programmes. The nature and extent of urban problems are now very well documented; there has been a considerable learning process in the development of different urban regeneration programmes. Over the 20th and the beginning of 21st centuries, the nature of urban regeneration policy has changed direction several times and has applied different focuses. Today, a “sustainable community” is a key issue in an ambitious Government programme “umbrella”. As an objective of the present programme, the UK Government introduced the Sustainable Community Plan in 2003, describing a vision of how our communities are to be developed over next 20 years economically, socially and environmentally, while respecting the needs of future generations. The paper assesses how closely the Regeneration Programme is aligned to the Sustainable Communities Plan. The research within several surveys focuses on sustainable communities and urban regeneration, both have certain parallels and functional overlaps. Santrauka Šiuo metu siekiama įdiegti atgaivinimo projektus ir sukurti darniąsias bendruomenes pasitelkiant partnerystės programas. Darniosios bendruomenės kūrimas yra viena svarbiausių problemų, analizuojamų JK vyriausybės programoje. 2003 m. JK vyriausybes sukurtame darniųjų bendruomenių plane pateikiama vizija, kaip mūsų bendruomenės turetų vystytis ekonomiškai, socialiai ir aplinkos atžvilgiu per ateinančius 20 metu, atsižvelgiant į ateities kartų gerovę ir poreikius. Analizuojama, kaip glaustai miestų atgaivinimo programa yra suderinta su darniųjų bendruomenių kūrimo planu. Tyrimai, pagrįsti tiesioginėmis apklausomis, įvertina darniųjų bendruomenių ir miestų atgaivinimo pletrą bei sąsajas.

Opportunities and Constraints of Heritage Tourism in Hong Kong's Changing Cultural Landscape

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 322-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiping Li ◽  
Lap Bang Raymond Lo
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
General Public ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
The Government

This study investigates the opportunities and constraints for heritage tourism development in Hong Kong through a case study. It aims to address the urgent need of heritage conservation against the city's ever-changing cultural landscape. The Market Appeal-Robusticity Matrix is used to assess 19 heritage assets in the Kam Tin area of the New Territories. The results suggest there is an increasing interest from both the government and general public in cultivating the city's heritage resources for tourism. Such an interest offers tremendous opportunities for the industry development. To appreciate the opportunities fully, however, appropriate strategies must be adopted in order to reduce the constraints that appear at two major levels

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document