The Influences of the Spread of Hong Kong's'Tower-on-Podium'Mode on the Modernization of Mainland China's Urban Landscape in China's Early Reform Era:A Chongqing Example
Taking Chongqing as an example,this paper investigates how Hong Kong's'tower-on-podium'model impacted the modernization of mainland China's urban landscape in the 1980s-1990s.Influenced by the reality of Hong Kong's land resource shortage,overcrowded population,and market-oriented construction mode,Hong Kong's'tower-on-podium'mode has the characteristic of prioritizing efficiency.It tends to develop into a self-contained area to avoid interference from the surrounding urban environment on its efficiency of service and commerce,reflecting the tendency of insularization.When such mode spread to Chongqing in the 1980s,its prioritization of efficiency and self-contained tendency were weakened for a time due to the absence of a real estate market in Chongqing.In the 1990s,as the real estate market in Chongqing was established,the'tower-on-podium'tendency to prioritize efficiency and siloing has resurfaced.The'tower-on-podium',to some extent,brought the modernity of Hong Kong characters(pragmatism,prioritizing efficiency,secularization,and commercialization)to Chongqing but also resulted in a fragmented urban landscape modernization process due to its self-contained natur.
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