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Article: Factors influencing the spatial pattern of sky gardens in the compact city of Hong Kong
Title | Factors influencing the spatial pattern of sky gardens in the compact city of Hong Kong | ||||
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Keywords | Compact city Data collection Green ratio Green spaces Ground-level | ||||
Issue Date | 2011 | ||||
Publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/landurbplan | ||||
Citation | Landscape and Urban Planning, 2011, v. 101 n. 4, p. 299-309 How to Cite? | ||||
Abstract | Sky garden is a hot topic in current research in urban ecology and landscape planning. However, due to the difficulty of data collection and processing, there are surprisingly few published guidelines exploring the spatial distribution of sky gardens and the factors that influence their presence in compact cities. By matching maps of buildings, green cover, district boundaries and roof and podium level layers, the spatial pattern of sky gardens and the factors in Hong Kong were analyzed. Suggestions for future development of sky gardens were also discussed. The results indicate that both roofs and podiums are not adequately utilized by green spaces. High green ratios of roof gardens exist on 5-20-floor buildings or buildings located in areas of low density for most land uses and most districts. Several factors play significant roles in the green ratios of podium gardens in some districts, such as building density in WC, S, E and HKI as a whole and podium areas in WC, SSP and KC. The development of sky gardens has not improved with town development and has not adequately compensated for limited ground-level green spaces. The spacious roof and podium areas that are available provide the potential for the extensive development of sky gardens with high green ratios and biodiversity. Systematic planning on a large scale that incorporates measures for increasing biodiversity and forming green networks may be an effective strategy to solve the problem of the extreme shortage of sky gardens in compact cities. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. | ||||
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/157917 | ||||
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 7.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.358 | ||||
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Funding Information: Special thanks are given to Department of Geography. University of Hong Kong, for purchasing the digital data from the Hong Kong Government. This work was supported by State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (2009-TD-03). | ||||
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dc.contributor.author | Tian, Y | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Jim, CY | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-08T08:56:17Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-08T08:56:17Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Landscape and Urban Planning, 2011, v. 101 n. 4, p. 299-309 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0169-2046 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/157917 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Sky garden is a hot topic in current research in urban ecology and landscape planning. However, due to the difficulty of data collection and processing, there are surprisingly few published guidelines exploring the spatial distribution of sky gardens and the factors that influence their presence in compact cities. By matching maps of buildings, green cover, district boundaries and roof and podium level layers, the spatial pattern of sky gardens and the factors in Hong Kong were analyzed. Suggestions for future development of sky gardens were also discussed. The results indicate that both roofs and podiums are not adequately utilized by green spaces. High green ratios of roof gardens exist on 5-20-floor buildings or buildings located in areas of low density for most land uses and most districts. Several factors play significant roles in the green ratios of podium gardens in some districts, such as building density in WC, S, E and HKI as a whole and podium areas in WC, SSP and KC. The development of sky gardens has not improved with town development and has not adequately compensated for limited ground-level green spaces. The spacious roof and podium areas that are available provide the potential for the extensive development of sky gardens with high green ratios and biodiversity. Systematic planning on a large scale that incorporates measures for increasing biodiversity and forming green networks may be an effective strategy to solve the problem of the extreme shortage of sky gardens in compact cities. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/landurbplan | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Landscape and Urban Planning | en_US |
dc.rights | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in <Journal title>. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in PUBLICATION, [VOL#, ISSUE#, (DATE)] DOI# | - |
dc.subject | Compact city | en_US |
dc.subject | Data collection | en_US |
dc.subject | Green ratio | en_US |
dc.subject | Green spaces | en_US |
dc.subject | Ground-level | en_US |
dc.title | Factors influencing the spatial pattern of sky gardens in the compact city of Hong Kong | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Tian, Y: tianyuhong@bnu.edu.cn | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Jim, CY: hragjcy@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Jim, CY=rp00549 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.035 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-79956268207 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 207780 | - |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-79956268207&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 101 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 299 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 309 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000291843200001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Jim, CY=7006143750 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Tian, Y=7402841077 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citeulike | 9156075 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0169-2046 | - |