To what extent can the problems of urbanization be met by a policy of sustainable development?
Sub-Title: Can the sustainable development policies solve the urban housing problems in Hong Kong?
Abstract
Hong Kong is a modern and prosperous city in the worldwide. Whereas it has existed the serious problems of urbanlisation sine the second world war in 1956. Due to the majority of the land is too hilly in housing development. Hong Kong has limited resource of land to supply the high population with about 7 million leading to citizens are suffering in overcrowded living condition especially the large family. The government has attached great importance to adopt the efficient sustainable development policies such as the Home Owner Scheme (HOS) and Public Rental Housing (PRH) to solve the housing problem. In this paper, the comparison of urban housing problems between Hong Kong and Shanghai are described and the information are collected from the academic articles and relative websites that can find out the positive sustainable polices to solve the problems in housing development. For this research purpose, I concentrated each situation of the housing problems with Hong Kong and Shanghai to compare its own sustainable policies and evaluate which city’s policies are more efficient.
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