Self-Determination within a Community

1155109989 Lau Yuk Fan

1155104773 Tsang Siu Kiu
1155109467 Chiu Chung Yin
1155110558 Lee Sin Yan
Walkability of Streets in Hong Kong with
Comparison of Shui Chuen O Estate and
Mong Kok District

Background:

Due to technology advance, society focus on

efficiency in which people turns to faster
vehicles and construction methods

- neighborhoods segregated by roads

- monotonous, organized housing block urban

landscapes

Fig 1. Collage, The Faked City, respecting The Naked City with
replacement of fragmented city plans with monotonous, organized housing
Walkability of Streets in Hong Kong with
Comparison of Shui Chuen O Estate and
Mong Kok District

How can streets allow self-driven wandering?

1) Freedom of Walkability

Choices of paths/ variation of spatial sequence

2) Encounters along Journey

Socialization/ Unexpected Excitement

3) Walkability with Social Inclusiveness

Intergenerational Interaction/ Accessibility

Fig 2. The Naked City by Guy Debord and Asger Jorn in 1957
Shared Spaces and Facilities in HK Public
Housing Estates

How can they be better adjusted to fit residents’

requirements?

Introduction:
- Manufactured playscape and exercising equipment,
and supporting amenities
- Rigid and predefined usage of facilities

1. Current planning doctrine of the HKHA

Reasons for such widespread manufactured facilities

2. The need for adequate visibility and accessibility

Passive see and hear contacts -> in-depth social connection (Gehl, 2010)

3. The need for self-determination

2018 Open Space Opinion Survey, psychological development, urge adults
to play for multi social age mixing, integral seating (Whyte, 1980)

4. Self-determined activities for spatial and self identity

Atmosphere, history, aesthetics and visual cultures of a public space
subtly
explicate and define its urban public culture (Amin, 2006)

Diagram showing a variety of activities - integral seating, self-initiated

community events/decorations, multi social-age mixing
 Estate Management in Public Housing
from an Adaptive Engagement Approach to a Collaborative Approach

To what extent the residents’ voices are being heard and incorporated over time?

Key questions:
- the extent of voice-out opportunities of residents
- whether their voices would be heard
- relationship between estate design and estate management
- result on community formation

Introduction:

- was a ‘top-down’ system

- justice in public housing policy
- gradually became a ‘bottom-up’ system
- adopted a more collaborative approach to estate planning.

Diagram showing different phases of public housing, residents change from

an adaptive engagement approach to a collaborative approach
 Estate Management in Public Housing from an Adaptive Engagement Approach to a Collaborative Approach

To what extent the residents’ voices are being heard and incorporated over time?

Before 1980: Estate Management Complements Deficiency in Building Design After 1980: Estate Management Further Develop the Building Design

Basic Design Approach in Estate Design Residents’ Collaborative Design Approach in Estate Design

Residents’ Adaptive Engagement Approach in Estate Management Residents’ Collaborative Engagement Approach in Estate Management

1. Force 1. Motivate
Basic
Create Adaptive Create Collaborativ Collaborativ
Vertical Design Democratic
2. Help to lessen Engagement e Design 2. Help to further e
Community Approach Community develop
Approach Approach Engagement
Deficiency
Approach
Concentrated retail service in HK public housings
How does this type of management affect the formation of community and
residents’ quality of lives in public housings in Hong Kong?

- Flow:

1) Organization of retail service

2) Concentrated management by HA and Link REIT and its effects

3) Discussion on the ability of HK concentrated management of retail service to

form social bonding and raise quality of lives

4) Suggestions and conclusions

- Hong Kong’s concentration model could hardly introduce variety of activities

due to the lack of genre of shops and environment

- Entrepreneurial space and commercial activities provides emotional

experience which helps to shape community’s identity and bonding

- Public engagement should be introduced in policy-making process to

empower the residents

Photos showing the lack of variety of activities in public housings shopping centre
and results in weak bonding of community compared to scattered street market