Opening the besieged city: Exploring an inclusive development strategy for Tin Shui Wai in Hong Kong

Public housing system of Hong Kong was gradually established to meet the large demand of housing and intervene the property market since 1954. Together with the urban expansion to rural areas, new towns as self-sufficient areas were constructed to settle public housing in New Territory since 1970s. However, some new towns developed into public housing clusters without enough living opportunities because of socio-economic changes and huge economic benefit. Tin Shui Wai is just such a new town of public housing cluster, with a large concentration of low-income groups. It is a Besieged City, out of the network of the mainstream of Hong Kong as a global financial metropolis and deserted at the edge of the metropolitan area. However, from Urbanism views, it still has potentials on different scales. The government is pushing a new development area of HSK next to TSW. There is no doubt that this area will attract investment with new infrastructure connection. However, it is hard to say whether the new development could benefit the low-income groups in TSW. So, this graduation project is to explore an inclusive development strategy that could benefit the low-income groups to open the Besieged City of TSW. The new development strategy, as a supplement to the government’s plan, would follow the development trend of the WNT area, make good use of nature and human resources in local environment, create spatial opportunities for community development, and focus on improving the life quality of low-income groups.

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Hong Kong
Public Housing
New Town
Inclusive development strategy
community development

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