Revisiting the land redevelopment in mega-cities of high-density human settlements from perspectives of urban governance
This article starts from the background of city-regionalism,analyzes the socioeco-nomic issues of compact city,and combines the urban governance toolkits that adopted by entre-preneurial government in land redevelopment.It takes Hong Kong as an empirical case to inves-tigate land redevelopment.The results show that:① The government is highly linked to busi-ness bodies in a paradigm of growth machine.② Hong Kong is discovered to be a property state captured by speculative profits in such coalition,wherein government's planning intentions cannot be fulfilled.③ Urban land that has not been utilized efficiently,i.e.brownfields and government land,will be adopted as potential land resources,wherein the key to utilizing such type of land is to obtain consistent development goals from multiple stakeholders.By explaining the planning strategies of the Hong Kong government to solve a high density of built environ-ment,it puts forward analysis of brownfield,state-owned land and other land that has not been efficiently utilized.This research could be helpful to similar mega-cities which shares a compact feature in high density,for it provides a disputable case.
land redevelopmenthigh-density human settlementslow efficient land useprop-erty stateHong Kong
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