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[Benefits and benefits] URA should be renamed as Luxury Housing Development Authority

2022-05-06T03:47:38.294Z


The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Hong Kong, euphemistically called "Redevelopment", has been developing luxury houses since the return of the People's Republic of China. Any redevelopment project is a luxury house project tailored for large real estate developers. Ten thousand


The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Hong Kong, euphemistically called "Redevelopment", has been developing luxury houses since the return of the People's Republic of China. Any redevelopment project is a luxury house project tailored for large real estate developers. 10,000 to 40,000 yuan is not rebuilding at all.

What is reconstruction, that is, the reconstruction of the original regional characteristics.

After the reconstruction of Wan Chai's Hei Tie Street, Hei Tie Street disappeared and became a high-end shopping street. This is not a reconstruction.


The spirit of reconstruction should be to share resources and create a win-win situation, that is, Jiete Street can exist, and high-end famous shopping streets can coexist.

This is the purpose of reconstruction. Unfortunately, the planning capability of the URA is very low. Their reconstruction is to demolish all the buildings and build a large air-conditioned shopping mall with many luxury residential units on it.

This irresponsible approach to rebuilding is very backward, Singapore will not do it, and Tokyo will not do it.

After the reconstruction of Wan Chai's Hei Tie Street, Hei Tie Street disappeared and became a high-end shopping street. This is not a reconstruction.

(Photo by Li Zetong)

In fact, reconstruction itself is a planning discipline, and there are specialized experts to do it.

The reconstruction of old districts in Singapore, such as the reconstruction of Chinatown and the old Chinatown area, the activation of the characteristics of tenement houses, and the establishment of the traditional style of Singapore.

Hong Kong originally had this direction. Unfortunately, the URA is basically dominated by engineers, and its chief executive, Wei Chi-shing, is also an engineer.

Mainstream engineers in Hong Kong will only demolish buildings and build large air-conditioned shopping malls, but will not rebuild them at all.

With the recent redevelopment of Yau Tsim Mong, the URA has hired a large Anglo-American "international" infrastructure engineering company for research.

The result of the research is that Yau Tsim Mong will be "demolitioned" and turned into a large number of large air-conditioned shopping malls and luxury houses.

This research report costing tens of billions of yuan is very superficial and lacks sufficient information.

Temple Street, Ladies Market, Fa Yuen Street, and the Flower Market Market make the entire Yau Tsim Mong district a traditional treasure in Hong Kong. However, the recommendations of the research report do not mention the current rich market resources in Yau Tsim Mong.

Why does a reconstruction project involving the humanities become the responsibility of an Anglo-American infrastructure engineering company?

This is also a characteristic of Hong Kong. The old city of Hong Kong is "infected with cancer", eradicating the Chinese and Western cultural traditions for more than 100 years, and turning it into huge air-conditioned shopping malls.

Since the handover, the entire system of the Hong Kong government has been developing large-scale air-conditioned shopping malls, eliminating markets, eliminating hawkers, and reducing the quality of life of Hong Kong people.

Those with money can have a life, while those without money have to live in a sub-divided apartment, living in a toilet and a kitchen.

The spirit of reconstruction should be to share resources and create a win-win situation.

(Photo by Yu Junliang)

This is the result.

When a system allows engineers to monopolize the redevelopment work that should have been done by architects and planners, the result is that all old districts in Hong Kong will be rebuilt into luxury homes!

Can this result be changed after Mr. Li Jiachao became the chief executive?

Can the Chairman of the URA, Mr. Chow Chung Kong and his committees reflect on and review which of the URA's projects truly conform to the redevelopment model and standards?

Hong Kong is known as a world-class professional. Architects and engineers will reflect on the large-scale projects they have built in Hong Kong. Is it really in line with professionalism and humanity?

As a rich city like Hong Kong, why not spend more effort on rebuilding the old district of Hong Kong?

Like Singapore, it can adapt the past to the present, the past and the present, the advanced and the traditional, and the coexistence of the Chinese and the Western.

The URA's engineer-led redevelopment approach needs to be radically changed, and it should assume greater responsibility in its housing policy in the future, providing or building HOS housing, or it may be half luxury and the other half HOS.

【Environment and Power】Quantitative Housing Result Indicators 【Enhance and Power】Temporary housing is the only "result" to solve short-term subdivided housing

Hu Enwei


is a member of the National Hong Kong and Macao Research Association, a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and Zuni.

Icosahedron United Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer


Source: hk1

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