The Neighborliness In Private Housing Estates In Hong Kong And Its Implications For Residential Planning PDF Download

This dissertation, "Impact of Layout Design on Neighborly Interaction in Public Housing Estate, Hong Kong" by Tapan Kumar, Dhar, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Impact of layout design on neighborly interaction in public housing estate, Hong Kong ABSTRACT st To embrace 21 century need, people are becoming fast to faster. Not knowing the name of the neighbor is not a unfamiliar even at all. Like e-banking, teleshopping, e-business becoming so popular, some day the term 'e-neighbor' may be popular. Where people live physically very closely in same neighborhood, the use of the term 'e-neighbor' is quite unfortunate. To run parallel with the global e-race, the neighborly interaction in public housing estates is not reversed. Several researches identified the community interaction in public housing estates; Hong Kong is decreased day by day. Hong Kong Housing authority developed living standard, housing program chronologically from 1950's. Similarly, the layout design of the housing estates also improved phase to phase. Layout design negotiates and balances between the programmatic requirement of housing authority and context. How does layout design influence on recreational facilities provided by Hong Kong Housing Authority as well as the people use these? Can communal spaces influence resident to be interacted? I have tried to identify in this dissertation the characteristic of communal spaces especially in out door spaces that influence resident to interact with others. This dissertation also try to find out how resident in public housing estate can react the different type of communal spaces and I have formulated a set of criteria of communal space that impact on resident physically and spatially to interact. And finally I have developed a list of attributes to develop further layout design in future regarding the neighborly interaction. ii DHAR, Tapan Kumar 07 September, 2007 DOI: 10.5353/th_b3955877 Subjects: Public housing - China - Hong Kong Neighborhoods - China - Hong Kong Social interaction - China - Hong Kong