Urban Renewal Series – Sustainable Neighbourhoods

 

Sustainable neighborhoods are places that are resilient, safe, and healthy where people want to live now, and in the future. In hindsight of the urban renewal experience of the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the needs of informal communities and social equity may require careful consideration and complicated planning solutions during the urban regeneration process. In this month’s issue, we will go through the kind of solutions we can have in order to achieve social sustainability in urban renewal / regeneration.

City of Imagination: Kowloon Walled City 20 Years Later

Publisher: Wall Street Journal

What if the Poor were Part of City Planning?

Publisher: Smruti Jukur Johari

Sustainable Regeneration in Urban Areas

Publisher: URBACT

To achieve social sustainability, it is important to incorporate the community’s ideas into planning through bottom-up approach. Neighborhood can create vibrancy in physical environment and give meaning to a place. In the following videos, let’s take a look at some private initiatives that generate successful urban regeneration through community engagement and regeneration via arts and culture.

Our London is a City of Neighbourhoods

Interviewer: City of London, Ontario (Canada)

Regeneration through Culture: Building Spaces for Communities

Speaker: Hannah Taylor

The HKIP-ETC "Professional Knowledge One-Click Away!" initiative aims to share new profession-related online videos with members on a monthly basis. Links of the current and past videos can now be found on the HKIP website under Publications & Learning Resources > Planning-related Knowledge. Should you have any interesting videos which you'd like to share with other members, we welcome you to make suggestions to us!

 
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