Town Planning Practice: Context, Procedures and Statistics for Hong Kong - Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai with Ki Fong - Bookniverse

Town Planning Practice: Context, Procedures and Statistics for Hong Kong

Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai with Ki Fong

US $19.00

Sat Jul 01 2000 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

9789882202948

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Hong Kong University Press

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About this book

Art > Architecture > Urban Design

This book is the first systematic attempt to introduce the current practice and statistics of town planning in Hong Kong. Part I gives an analytical account of the practical and ideological context, discusses design principles and describes procedures of town planning with particular reference to change in use. The emphasis is on skills of plan interpretation and an appreciation of the intellectual disposition of planners and various objective constraints confronting them. Part II is the first of its kind in presenting and analysing the statistics of planning applications for 11 zones from 1978 to 1998. The success rates of planning applications as well as the main reasons used by the Town Planning Board for rejecting planning applications are elucidated.

About the author(s)

Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai with Ki Fong

Lawrence Wai-chung Lai won a Commonwealth scholarship to study town planning at the University of Sydney in 1983-84 where he obtained a Royal Australian Planning Institute (NSW) prize for outstanding academic performance. He worked as a Town Planner with the Town Planning Office, Lands and Works Branch and the Environmental Protection Department before joining the University of Hong Kong. He is now an associate professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction at the University of Hong Kong. Ki Fong is a BSc (Surveying) graduate of the University of Hong Kong and is now working in the Lands Department.

About the publisher

Established in 1956, and part of the University of Hong Kong, Asia’s most prominent English-speaking university, HKU Press publishes more than 30 new titles annually, with a growing proportion (more than 25%) in Chinese. Building on Hong Kong's unique global position, HKU Press books examine, critique, and celebrate Asia’s place in the world. We have gained particular renown for publications in Chinese history and culture, law, public health, social work, film/media studies, art and architecture/urban planning.

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