[Re]Forming Public Space: A Critique of Hong Kong’s Park Governance through Architectural Intervention

This paper’s point of departure is a critique of the Hong Kong government’s somewhat rigid approach to regulating the public spaces of its parks. As an antidote to a rule-bound and somewhat restrictive set of policies, four groups of architecture students at the University of Hong Kong have designed...

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Main Author: Jason Carlow
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Language:English
Published: TU Delft OPEN Publishing 2013-01-01
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Online Access:https://ojs-libaccp.tudelft.nl/index.php/footprint/article/view/763
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