TY - JOUR
T1 - How Much Development Can a Rail Station Lead? A Case Study of Hong Kong
AU - Xue, Charlie Qiuli
AU - Sun, Cong
PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - Since the concept was first introduced in the 1970s, transit-oriented-development (TOD) has greatly expanded in East Asian cities such as Hong Kong. Rail stations are built together with clusters of residential-commercial towers and government services to form a new style of living - a "rail village." This paper examines the composition, scale, spatial form, organization and operation of several typical rail villages in Hong Kong. The cases range across those planned from the mid-1990s to 2015. Based on the analysis of the rail village composition, the paper derives a development ratio to indicate the density, effectiveness and efficiency of a rail village catchment area. The ratio provides a useful and direct figure for the comparison of different stations, cities and development modes.
AB - Since the concept was first introduced in the 1970s, transit-oriented-development (TOD) has greatly expanded in East Asian cities such as Hong Kong. Rail stations are built together with clusters of residential-commercial towers and government services to form a new style of living - a "rail village." This paper examines the composition, scale, spatial form, organization and operation of several typical rail villages in Hong Kong. The cases range across those planned from the mid-1990s to 2015. Based on the analysis of the rail village composition, the paper derives a development ratio to indicate the density, effectiveness and efficiency of a rail village catchment area. The ratio provides a useful and direct figure for the comparison of different stations, cities and development modes.
KW - Transit-oriented development (TOD)
KW - Hong Kong, Rail village
KW - Catchment area
KW - Development ratio
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U2 - 10.21022/IJHRB.2018.7.2.95
DO - 10.21022/IJHRB.2018.7.2.95
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 2234-7224
VL - 7
SP - 95
EP - 109
JO - International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
JF - International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
IS - 2
M1 - 1
ER -
