Habitable Living Environment Jackie Kwok Kaman Tsang Dominant

可居的生活環境 (Habitable Living Environment ) Jackie Kwok Kaman Tsang

維多利亞港 香港歷史 香港空間 主導(Dominant ) 1. 表象(Representation) 2. 策略(Strategies ) 3. 門面(façade)

• The remote periphery is first of all filled monotonous public housing estates, which is ‘sealed against any buoyancy or vitality of city life’ (Jacobs).

Life Space The theatre of life, understood as a convivial life, and an expression of it. In the narrowest conception, life space refer to bounded, territorial spaces: i. e. neighbourly spaces It contain the vast majority of people’s daily round of activities. Economic Space An abstract space for economic activities. Economic space is abstract and discontinuous, consisting primarily of locations (nodes) and linkages (flows of commodities, capital, labour and information) Constantly undergoes transformation To achieve particular individual and collective needs of a community it is an a-historical space The principal actors which constitute and, indeed, produce this abstract A development defined from within, and economic space are firms and its specific meaning corporations Economic space is open and unlimited; it can expand in all directions Friedmann, John. (2002). Life space & economic space : essays in Third World planning. New Brunswick, N. J. : Transaction Publishers.

Streets and art?

The difference between the X’mas tree and the sculpture?

城市的仕紳化（Gentrification）

Culture as everyday life in Life Space Culture as business in Edge City e. g. Tuen Mun Downtown e. g. Wan. Chai Tuen Mun Park: Neighbourhood space Gentrification and Culture-led Urban Policy Park as public services/ gathering place for the local people Place Identity Social Cohesion Grassroots Sentimental attachment Older Persons Social integration Economic Space Cultural Quarters (High concentration of cultural facilities) to attract middle class consumer and tourists Museum or art galleries Cultural Expression Taste business Cafes+ restaurants Housing estates with high property value Public art Design product shops opposition Conflicts between the older persons and LCDS officers Space as Commodity Tourism Control and Surveillance Media Reports Social Segregation Cultural Segregation Simulated local image Simulated middle class Neighbour hood

Wanchai n. Woo Cheong Pawn Shop at 66, was a well-known local pawnshop trader for over a century. n(Woo Cheong Pawn Shop) was preserved & became a high class restaurant called The Pawn restaurant.

18 Ship street & 186 -190 Queen’s road east are preserved. 18 Ship street became a high class restaurant called Yin Yang.

Property with high price Price in May 2009: J Resident: HK$11214/sq. ft The Zenith: HK$$9, 002/sq. ft

• 「Full of merit, yet poetically, man /Dwells on this earth」 • (累滿著勞績，然而，人詩意地/住居於這片 大地)