Connect the Community Again: Participation as a tool for the redesign of vacant heritage. The case of Politiebureau Groningen Centrum

This project explores sustainable redevelopment strategies for vacant heritage. It explores the opportunities for stakeholder participation in heritage activities, the importance of which is stressed by, i.e., UNESCO, the Faro Convention, and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. The project experiments an innovative systematic...

Renewal with arrival: A participatory urban renewal in Hong Kong immigrant neighborhood

Hong Kong is an immigrant city. Over 30% of population nowadays are immigrant from mainly China mainland, Malaysia, Philippine and UK (CSD, 2017). Sham Shui po is a typical arrival city that had successfully accommodated several generations of immigrants and help them rising to the local city middle class. Sham Shui Po is developed in 1920s. Its...