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Smart and Sustainable Built Environments

Smart and Sustainable Built Environments

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Given the hilly territory that presents physical and economic constraints on land supply, the government 1 Center for Architecture and Urban Design for China and Hong Kong, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, ...
WIDEOPEN

WIDEOPEN

Tourette Journal

3 biographies Melissa Cate Christ is the founding director of transverse studio, an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong and a licensed landscape architect. She has degrees from the University of ...
Real Estate Education Throughout the World: Past, Present ...

Real Estate Education Throughout the World: Past, Present ...

Karl-Werner Schulte

He has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Hong Kong since 1987. He has been Associate Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong since 1991. Kwong Wing Chau was the past ...
Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: ...

Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: ...

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Hong Kong: Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong. Duarte, F. (2002). Crise das matrizes espaciais: arquitetura, cidades, geopolítica, tecnocultura. São Paulo: Perspectiva / FAPESP. Economou, M., & Tost, L.P. (2006). Educational ...
Dense living urban structure: selected papers of the ...

Dense living urban structure: selected papers of the ...

University of Hong Kong. Faculty of Architecture

Liang-yong Wu. 2001. Introduction to Sciences of Human Settlement. China Architecture and Building Press. Beijing, China. Humane Design for Living Environment: Design with People in Mind 24 Study on the Ecological Environment Design ...
The Public Sector in Hong Kong

The Public Sector in Hong Kong

Ian Scott

Sweeting, Anthony, “Hong Kong Education within Historical Processes” in Education and Society in Hong Kong: Toward One Country and Two Systems, ed . GerardA. Postiglione (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1992). — A Phoenix ...
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

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In this intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of ...
Database Reengineering and Interoperability

Database Reengineering and Interoperability

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE N. V. Balasubramanian C. Bloor City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Sunderland, United Kingdom S. Chakravarty University of Florida, United States T.Y. Cheung City University of Hong Kong, ...
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

M. Ackbar Abbas

In an intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.
China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives

China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives

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... Kong) (Hong Kong: Wanli Shudian, 2013), 146–151. 2. Chan Lau Kit-Ching, “ The United States and the Question of Hong Kong, 1941–1945,” Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 19 (1979), 1–20; Chi-kwan Mark,  ...
Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong ...

Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong ...

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Challenges for Hong Kong SAR New Wave cinema”, Journal of Chinese Cinemas 6. 2 (2012): 127. On the minor conceptualised within Hong Kong cinema see Ka-fai Yau, “Cinema 3: Towards A “Minor Hong Kong Cinema”, Cultural Studies ...
Chairs: The Delft Collection

Chairs: The Delft Collection

Otakar Máčel

"Institute of History of Art, Architecture & Urbanism, Delft University of Technology--Faculty of Architecture"--P. facing t.p.
Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action ...

Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action ...

Meaghan Morris

Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the uptake of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France and the US as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese mainland.
13TH MAY 1969 RIOTS

13TH MAY 1969 RIOTS

Leon Comber

This dissertation, "The 13th May 1969 Riots: an Example of Sino-Malay Friction." by Leon, Comber, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong ...
Hong Kong and Bollywood: Globalization of Asian Cinemas

Hong Kong and Bollywood: Globalization of Asian Cinemas

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According to Chi-Kwan Mark, postwar Hong Kong was “decolonized in substance ” in the early 1950s (Mark 2004: 10). In order to maintain its prestigious status as a global player and to justify its legitimate rule over Hong Kong par excellence, ...
Folio 06: Documents of NUS Architecture

Folio 06: Documents of NUS Architecture

Shiqiao Li

March 2005 / Folio is a publication of the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore Editors: Li Shiqiao: Belinda Ho Contributing Faculty. Bay Joo Hua. Philip; Christian Gilles Boucharenc; Ruzica Bozovic-Stamenovic; Heng  ...
Hong Kong and the Cold War:Anglo-American Relations ...

Hong Kong and the Cold War:Anglo-American Relations ...

Chi-kwan Mark

It culminated in the little known '1957 Question', a year when the British position in Hong Kong appeared more uncertain than any time since 1949.This is the first scholarly study that places Hong Kong at the heart of the Anglo-American ...
Hong Kong Nursing Students' Learning Approaches: Why and How ...

Hong Kong Nursing Students' Learning Approaches: Why and How ...

Yung-Kwan Albert Chan

This dissertation, "Hong Kong Nursing Students' Learning Approaches: Why and How Do Hospital-based General Nursing Students Learn?" by Yung-kwan, Albert, Chan, 陳容坤, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) ...
Bartlett Works

Bartlett Works

Iain Borden

The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London is one of the world's leading schools of architecture; this book covers the major achievements of its former architecture students and current staff.
Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning From Village Homes

Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning From Village Homes

Judy Corbett

The book represents an invaluable guide for professionals and students involved in planning, architecture, development, and landscape architecture.
Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education ...

Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education ...

OECD

... current performance of the united States: andreas Schleicher; Japan: marc tucker and Betsy Brown ruzzi, ncee; china: Kai-ming cheng, university of hong Kong, hong Kong, china; canada: robert Schwartz and Jal mehta, harvard university, ...
Value Management in Construction Projects

Value Management in Construction Projects

Mei-Yung Leung

This dissertation, "Value Management in Construction Projects" by 梁美容, Mei-yung, Leung, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong ...
Economy: A Documentary History of Hong Kong

Economy: A Documentary History of Hong Kong

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A Documentary History of Hong Kong David Faure, Pui-tak Lee. CHAPTER FIVE. INDUSTRIAL. REVIVAL. IN. THE. 19508. AND. 19608. The revival of industry in Hong Kong in the 19505 and 19605 was marked by bold investment in a limited ...
Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban ...

Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban ...

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Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America Clifton Ellis, Rebecca Ginsburg ... Award from the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Rebecca Ginsburg is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the.
Arts and Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New ...

Arts and Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New ...

Maureen Meister

Warren, “The Year's Architecture,” p. 18. In “The Year's Architecture,” p. 18, Warren comments on Boston's Colonial Revival. On Philadelphia's Arts and Crafts architecture, see Jane Perkins Claney,“The New Simplicity: Domestic Architecture of ...
PROPERTY RIGHTS ANALYSIS OF ZO

PROPERTY RIGHTS ANALYSIS OF ZO

Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai

This dissertation, "Property Rights Analysis of Zoning" by Lawrence Wai-chung, Lai, 黎偉聰, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong ...
Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the ...

Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the ...

Gerald Horne

Vaudine England, The Quest of Noel Croucher: Quiet Philosopher, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1998, p. 142. 95. The term “American” is used as a matter of convenience to describe U.S. citizens and is not intended to deny others  ...
Children's Spaces

Children's Spaces

Mark Dudek

This collection of essays is concerned with both the experiences children have within the supervised worlds they inhabit in schools and daycare centers, and with architecture and landscape architecture they experience within the city.

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