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The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical to Volumetric book cover

1st Edition

The Making of Hong Kong From Vertical to Volumetric

By Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan Copyright 2011
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages 215 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 215 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism. The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the forest of towers are in fact vertical culs de sac; and how the city might become truly ‘volumetric’... Read more

1. A State of IntenCity  2. Precedents  3. Long, Low and Intense: From Possession Point to World War II  4. Massing and Rising: The Post-War Decades  5. Vertical and Volumetric: Post 1980  6. Podium and Tower  7. Emerging Volumetric: Components  8. Conclusion: Vertical and Volumetric  Postscript: Advancing the Volumetric on Old District and New Territory Sites

Biography

Barrie Shelton is Honorary Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney.

Justyna Karakiewicz is Associate Professor of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.

Thomas Kvan is the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning and Assistant Vice Chancellor (Campus Development) at the University of Melbourne.

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