<\/a>(Photo taken by Minjun Huang, 22\/9\/2016, Queen’s Road West.)<\/p><\/div>\n
Above is the podium roof of the adjacent building which has been private for long time.<\/p>\n
These roof spaces have a great potentiality to be renovated into a part of the urban living, e.g. public roof garden linked with ground, or elevated streets while connected to other roofs of the adjacent podiums. It would not only be benefit for the residence who could get more outdoor space near home, but also create value for developers if the program combines\u00a0with commerce. More importantly, it would make another\u00a0surface for the urban living, and stimulate more possible activities for citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hong Kong\u2019s political system, geography and population density make it one of the most crowded urban environments in the world.\u00a0 Soaring real estate prices fed by profit driven developers and a deluge of investment and speculation from the Chinese mainland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[37,36,40,61,39],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}