High-Rise Living in Asian Cities
Anthony G.O. Yeh Editors High-Rise Living in Asian Cities 123
Editors Singapore belyuen8@gmail.com Anthony G.O. Yeh Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Hong Kong SAR Anthony.Yeh@hku.hk Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com ISBN 978-90-481-9737-8 e-isbn 978-90-481-9738-5 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9738-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. CD-ROM included in inside back cover Cover illustration: Photograph taken by Mr. John Cheuk-yee Ng. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents 1 Introduction: High-Rise Living in Asian Cities... 1 Anthony G.O. Yeh and 2 Tall Building Living in High Density Cities: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore... 9 Anthony G.O. Yeh and 3 Physical Environment of Tall Residential Buildings: The Case of Hong Kong... 25 Stephen S.Y. Lau 4 The Planning and Design of Environmentally Sustainable High-Rises... 49 Wenjian Zhu and Rebecca L.H. Chiu 5 Garden and Ecology in the Sky... 65 6 Legislation and Safety of Tall Residential Buildings... 81 Wah Sang Wong 7 The Value of Clean Air in High-Density Urban Areas... 113 K.W. Chau, S.K. Wong, Andy T. Chan, and K. Lam 8 Liveability of Tall Residential Buildings... 129 9 Community Development in Tall Residential Buildings... 149 Stephen J. Appold 10 In the March of High-Rise... 179 Index... 187 Appendix (CD-ROM included inside back cover) The State of Urban High-rise Research: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled by v
Contributors Stephen J. Appold Kenan-Flagler Business School, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, Kenan Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3440, USA, appold@unc.edu Andy T. Chan Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong K.W. Chau Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, hrrbckw@hku.hk Rebecca L.H. Chiu Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, rlhchiu@hkucc.hku.hk K. Lam Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Stephen S.Y. Lau Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, ssylau@hku.hk; laustephensy@gmail.com S.K. Wong Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Wah Sang Wong Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, wswong@hkucc.hku.hk Anthony G.O. Yeh Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, Anthony.Yeh@hku.hk Department of Real Estate, National University of Singapore, Singapore, belyuen8@gmail.com Wenjian Zhu College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, zhuwenjian@hotmail.com vii