Third Urban Thinkers Campus Hong Kong PREPARATORY WORKSHOP
New Territories Tomorrow: Challenges and Opportunities
Urban Thinkers Campus Preparatory Workshop
Date: March 16, 2019 (Saturday)
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Venue: AIT Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The World Urban Campaign is to rally all stakeholders to the same cause: making cities liveable and sustainable. It aims at engaging all who have a potential to articulate pressing urban issues, propose solutions and
commit to shared goals and actions towards realising the New Urban Agenda including:
- Positive urban development
- Solutions to urban challenges
- Giving voice to people to change our urban future
In its 2018 Policy Address, the government of the HKSAR has announced a mega-project- Lantau Tomorrow Vision that includes the construction of artificial islands with a total area of about 1,780 hectares through massive land reclamation in
the eastern waters of Lantau Island. The built-up area of Hong Kong made up only 24.3% of land and discounting country parks in largely rugged terrain and other conservation areas (47%), the city should still have some 29% of land for use.
More importantly, a lot of this land lies in the New Territories. Perhaps Hong Kong needs a New Territories Vision too?
In the 2017 Urban Thinkers Campus 2.0, participants have come up with the following principles for planning the future of Hong Kong:
- Inter-disciplinary and interdepartmental coordination for regional planning
- Small is beautiful: localised planning and building guidelines with early involvement of urban designers to promote diverse neighbourhoods
- People-centric approach
- Environmental friendliness, sustainability and resilience
