Introduction
The purpose of this paper is trying to find out the main strategic priorities for policy makers of the chosen city: Hong Kong, China, to strong and development sustainably the economic and planning over the next 20 years. As the urban economy is a key factor of city planning, so the changing of city economy would affect the social, political and commercial life in a city. This essay would select Hong Kong as a study object to think about policy and planning for a city, which provide a practical exercise that might be encountered in the further under professional practice.
The organization of the paper is as follow. First, it will introduce some foundation of urban economy. Second, the general information about Hong Kong would be presented, including geography, population, history, policy and so on. Third, that will talk about the economy development history in Hong Kong. Forth, it turns to the policy of economy in Hong Kong. Fifth, it will discuss and speculate the further development of Hong Kong on the areas of economy, planning and policy. Seventh, a summary would be sort out.
Basic theory of City Economies
Urban economics is an economic discipline to study the economic relations and its regular pattern of cities under the development process. The main content of basic theory of the urban economy includes urbanization, city size, and internal structure of the urban economy and so on.
As urban economics is also a part of social science, so it subject to be constrained by social and political system. Therefore, under the different social systems, the contents of study will be significant differences. For examples, in the western countries, it mainly studies the markets within the city, and tries to so...
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...system the performance of macro-economic policies, because it is Hong Kong's macroeconomic performance and unlock the current hot issues a key. (Hu, 2005)
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The history of Hong Kong is an interesting one and moreover, it has defined Hong Kong as an export oriented region. This section therefore explores the most important historical developments of Hong Kong, and discusses the effects on the economic development.
Before 1997, Hong Kong was being the colony of the United Kingdom, politics in Hong Kong is different from the mainland China and it is unique from other countries. After 1997, the sovereignty of Hong Kong is regressed to China, then the Hong Kong politics was under the foundation of ‘One Country Two systems’ and it is regulated by the Basic Law of Hong Kong.
...nd and buildings, those particular classes and groups in the capitalist system is mainly through control of these spaces feature to shape and influence the shape and organization of urban space.” It's like urban design and the use of space in Hong Kong, mainly by the government to play the role of planners to develop policies and direction, re- organization of urban space , to make "every urban space being misused, back up valuable space." establish minds think for people to meet planners use city. However, planners often ignore or deny the use of urban space by practical considerations, especially in the urban renewal project, the land was divided and re-use, along with shopping malls, commercial or residential with landmark buildings, etc. completed properties, which is becoming gentrified and "gentrification" of the problem mansion up reconstruction projects led.
Urbanization (or urbanisation) is the increasing number of people that live in urban areas. Urbanization has been the result of economic growth for most countries. In fact, every developed nation in the world has gone through urbanization and this is no news to Chinese leaders. To turn the nation of China from being a developing nation to a developed nation, China encouraged the migration of citizens from the countryside to move to large cities and fuel the industrializing nation. Though urbanization has been a process many countries have gone through, China’s urbanization plans are very distinct compared to western examples. The main reason for China’s urbanization distinctions is its sheer magnitude and pace. In this paper, we will review this mass migration, the economic growth, China’s environmental concerns (specifically air pollution) due the urbanization and the focus on industrialization, and we will briefly see China’s newest seven year urbanization plan.
Ligang Liu, Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on China: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications, China & World Economy, 1-23, Vol 17, No.6, 2009
...rt there will be no urbanization. Economy has its own rules and its own development. We cannot "push" or "speed up" subjectively, Destructive Enthusiasm in urban planning will be a dead end. Therefore, in reality, we must guard against false or excessive urbanization driven by the interests of the regime and to halt the urban sprawl-style expansion, to achieve a gradual urbanization. "New Urbanism", "compact city", "smart growth" provides us with useful ideas. There are few tiny gaps between the focus of these concepts, but their main principle is the same, namely to improve the utilization efficiency of urban space and create policies to control urban sprawl. Change the city zoning concept, promoting diversification of land use; reduce reliability on motorized travel; improve public transport to stimulate the vitality of the city It is our common goal of the future
citizens in the west half of China have a desire to live in a more urban life
In the past decade, there are different kinds of social issues and movements in Hong Kong. It has aroused some concerns and discussions in the aspect of cultural identity. Due to the historical and political factors, more and more Hong Kong people think that it is hard to distinguish their identities as Honkonger, Chinese or even Chinese Honkonger, which indicated the unique hybrid identity of Hong Kong people and it is intertwining processes to define who am I and what am I? In additions, due to the homogenization of space under the globalization, people have the almost same experiences and way of life in different global cities. It results in “placelessness” and drives the people more unfamiliar to their city which may easily
Again, this section will give a working definition of the “urban question’. To fully compare the political economy and ecological perspectives a description of the “urban question” allows the reader to better understand the divergent schools of thought. For Social Science scholars, from a variety of disciplines, the “urban question” asks how space and the urban or city are related (The City Reader, 2009). The perspective that guides the ecological and the social spatial-dialect schools of thought asks the “urban question” in separate distinct terminology. Respected scholars from the ecological mode of thinking, like Burgess, Wirth and others view society and space from the rationale that geographical scope determines society (The City Reader, 2009). The “urban question” that results from the ecological paradigm sees the relationship between the city (space) as influencing the behaviors of individuals or society in the city. On the other hand...
Though China is the world's fifth-largest country in terms of area and the second largest country in Asia, it is the most populous country in the world. There is over one billion Chinese people which is 19 percent of the world's population and the population still keeps growing. From 2000 to 2010, Chinese population growth is about 6.2% and if we compared the population from 1960 with 2010, the population had grown more than 100%. While half of Chinese people live in the rural areas, the urban population is growing rapidly. In January 2012, urban population has exceeded the rural population for the first time. Now about 100 million rural people become migrant workers which move in and out the cities in search of work. This has caused many problems in China , since in the past and the present day, such as traffic jams in the city, pollution, and most importantly the shortage of food and shelter. This might affect the Chinese economic as well.
Whenever people mention Hong Kong in the context of where it stands on a global front, they always talk about it being a colonial city that worked its way through post colonization and successfully established itself as a world-renowned city. Or they talk about how it has recognized itself as a world-class city by excelling on the economic fore front and becoming one of the worlds leading international financial centres. However, people barely associate Hong Kong with being a multicultural city. Why is that so? Is it because the locals of Hong Kong are keener on promoting traditional culture than diversity? Or is it because multiculturalism creates more tension amongst the residents than brotherhood? Through this paper I would like to explore Hong Kong from the perspective of being a multicultural city, building up on how colonization established multiculturalism in Hong Kong and leading on to how multiculturalism affects Hong Kong as a global city, in today’s world.
Sassen, S. "The Global City: introducing a Concept." Brown Journal of World Affairs. 11.2 (2005): 40. Print.
Hong Kong city has both positive and negative images. On the positive aspect, Hong Kong has a significant convenient transportation, it has an excellent transport system. Besides the transport factor, security is another important issue should be considered. Hong Kong is also a safe city to visit and it has lower terrorist threats. In addition, Hong Kong has a variety of food and cuisines, various attractions and many shopping malls just
A small fishing island with only 800 people living on it, measuring only 424 miles long, would you have thought that it would become a megacity with a population of 7 million plus(HK GOV) The colonisation of Hong Kong left many positive impacts and truly supported the development of HK and this shows in many ways when Hong Kong was under British Rule. Some of the ways the British aided Hong Kong was the economy, the transportation and even created a system of governance in HK. Without the Britain Hong Kong would not have the same democratic system of governance it has today. (LEGAL HK)
In the early years, urbanization was happening mostly in the capital cities of the country or province as they were the areas that were being modernized faster than the other places, and this was because when people visit an area they first set foot on the capital of that area as it serves as the main attraction before other areas. But as we know now that you get areas that are more urbanized than their own capitals and this is the due to others offering more resources and more diverse living standards. A country is said to be urbanized when over half of its population is living in urban environments. European or rather developed countries were the first to be urbanized but in recent years developing countries are get more and more urbanized and having more of it people living in urban areas. (R.Faridi, 2012)