A catallactic framework of government land reclamation: The case of Hong Kong and Shenzhen

Lai, Lwc; Lu, Wilson W.S.; Lorne, Frank T.

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.04.013

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“…The population of Shenzhen is 119 million with an annual growing rate of 4.7% in 2016. However, the land area of Shenzhen is only 1991 km 2 [23], roughly 1/8 of Beijing or 1/3 of Shanghai or Guangzhou. Because of limited land resources, Shenzhen has reclaimed about 100 km 2 of land from sea in the past 30 years [24].…”

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Resolving Surface Displacements in Shenzhen of China from Time Series InSAR

Liu

Chen

et al. 2018

Remote Sensing

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Over the past few decades, the coastal city of Shenzhen has been transformed from a small fishing village to a mega city as China’s first Special Economic Zone. The rapid economic development was matched by a sharp increase in the demand for usable land and coastal reclamation has been undertaken to create new land from the sea. However, it has been reported that subsidence occurred in land reclamation area and around subway tunnel area. Subsidence and the additional threat of coastal inundation from sea-level rise highlight the necessity of displacement monitoring in Shenzhen. The time Series InSAR technique is capable of detecting sub-centimeter displacement of the Earth’s surface over large areas. This study uses Envisat, COSMO-SkyMed, and Sentinel-1 datasets to determine the surface movements in Shenzhen from 2004 to 2010 and from 2013 to 2017. Subsidence observed can be attributable to both land reclamation and subway construction. Seasonal displacements are likely to be associated with precipitation. The influence of ocean tidal level changes on seasonal displacement is not strongly evident from the results and requires further investigations. In general, InSAR has proven its ability to provide accurate measurements of ground stability for the city of Shenzhen.

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Resolving Surface Displacements in Shenzhen of China from Time Series InSAR

Liu

Chen

et al. 2018

Remote Sensing

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“…The history of how Venice was established has been aptly recorded and studied in the literature. (Lai et al 2014a, Lai et al 2019 People living on the Italian Peninsula who wanted to escape Lombard domination fled to the mud beds that comprised the virgin terrain of Venice and needed to be reinforced by wooden piles. That was how this famous water city began.…”

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“…The evolvement of internal politics is easier if there was no prior political structure acting as a constraint. This happened to St. Petersburg in the 18 th century and Singapore from 1960 (Lai et al 2014a(Lai et al , 2019.…”

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Digitizing Refugee Camps: Promotion of Mobile Communication for Charter Governance

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Lai

Lorne

2019

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The question….is not whether billions of people will soon gather together in cities, but where and under what conditions. Under conditions of policy-as-usual, people will flock to slums that surround cities whose governments either do not want additional residents or are incapable of accommodating them. Many people will become second-class citizens in informal settlements that, by definition, offer none of the protections that formal rules can provide. Even for migrants who manage to gain access to formal systems of rules in the developing world, the protections and opportunities in the cities that will accept them will often be well below those offered by the rules in the cities where they would rather live (Fuller and Romer, 2012: p.3). Many refugees are no strangers as global citizens, highly-educated, entrepreneurial, and happen to be trapped in circumstances that waste their universal values and potential. This situation is not sustainable.

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“…Currently, competition between the two deltas is not strong due to their differing economic structures. In 2013, the ratios of services and trade to gdp are 71% and 221% for the Greater Hong Kong, and 51% and 121% for the Greater Shanghai, respectively (L. Lai et al, 2014). Also, each hinterland's economic structure has assimilated with that of its own central city.…”

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Hong Kong and Shanghai: a tale of two cities in China

Sheng

2018

Tempo Soc.

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This research discusses Hong Kong’s long-run role as a preeminent international finance centre in the greater China with a view of Shanghai’s rapid growth. Using a synthesis approach of politics and economics, rather than pure economic analysis and forecasting, it is argued Shanghai is not likely to overtake/replace Hong Kong as an international finance hub in the region. Hong Kong will still keep its position in many years to come even if Shanghai has made enormous efforts to rebuild its financial industry. Due to their diverging industry structure, sheer size of the country, and most importantly different positioning by the central and local governments, the two cities are not necessarily rivals, but can actually be complementary partners, serving two non-overlapping hinterlands. This research also asserts that Hong Kong’s integration with the mainland economy is essential for its increasing competitiveness, while putting emphasis on policy reform for Hong Kong to maintain a strategic advantage over Shanghai.

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A catallactic framework of government land reclamation: The case of Hong Kong and Shenzhen

Cited by 20 publications

References 34 publications

Resolving Surface Displacements in Shenzhen of China from Time Series InSAR

Resolving Surface Displacements in Shenzhen of China from Time Series InSAR

Digitizing Refugee Camps: Promotion of Mobile Communication for Charter Governance

Hong Kong and Shanghai: a tale of two cities in China

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