Tiny affordable housing in Hong Kong

Towards Physical Internet-enabled Prefabricated Housing Construction in Hong Kong

Prefabrication could provide various benefits for housing production, including lower the cost, improve the management efficiency and quality, ensure the safety, and realize sustainability. However, to fully acquire these benefits in real world construction process, challenges still exist on real-time tracing and tracking of the prefabrication components, and getting real-time interactions amon...

Housing Sustainability in Hong Kong: a Market-based Perspective

While sustainability has been under heated debate in the past 20 years, practical issues such as housing sustainability have been overlooked. This research introduces a two-tier analytical framework based on the environmental, economic and social dimensions of housing sustainability. This provides a market-oriented understanding on the issue of housing sustainability. The findings suggest that ...

Transcultural Hybrid: Emergence of a Hong Kong Housing Typology

Housing Vacancy and Rental Adjustment: Evidence from Hong Kong

The traditional rental adjustment equation is ̄ awed in that the equilibrium paths for the adjustm ent of rents and vacancy rates cannot hold simultaneously over time. This paper suggests a two-equation model of rental adjustm ents based on adaptive expectation s rather than the single-equation model presen ted in the traditional literatu re, and provides empirical tests. Annual data from the ho...

Prospect of Electronic Road Pricing in Hong kong

To cope with the urban congestion problem resulted from rapid urbanization some cities are successfully using Electronic Road Pricing policy as a demand management measure. In 1982, Hong Kong Governmenttook initiative to experiment electronic road pricing in Hong Kong. Though, the project outcome reveals that Electronic Road Pricing could bring tremendous economic, social and environmental bene...