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Category: Environment
Tags: urban renewal, Hong Kong, people-oriented, world-class city
Background information: http://www.ura.org.hk
 -7.24%

  Support:
 -7.24%
Points:
The urban renewal project in Hong Kong helps "create quality and vibrant urban living - a better home in a world-class city"  
  • but: large amount of reconstruction works required by the renewal project leads to air pollution  +75%

  • because: urban renewal helps improve the living quality of the community  +63.02%

    • because: the urban renewal project makes the aging district a better place to live, improve the living environment of many enervated district  +83.33%

    • because: urban renewal helps solve the aging of the community  +70.83%

      • because: the project aims to renovates those dangerous obsolete buildings in the target district  +83.33%

    • because: urban renewal attempts to re-address the land utilization of the target district in order to facilitate further development of the community  +66.67%

      • because: in re-planning the district, the government can allocate resources in a more efficient way, according to different groups of the people in the community  +50%

    • because: more environmentally friendly, energy cost-effective plazas, and towers will be built to replace those old buildings  +50%

  • because: urban renewal increases the revenue of the government  +54.17%

    • because: reclaim private property for civic projects from which can be taxed in the future  +66.67%

  • but: urban renewal usually disrupt the daily living of the people and the community in the target district  +53.39%

    • because: revitalization of the districts is ofter at high cost to existing communitites  +23.44%

      • because: compulsory purchases of the private properties owned by the people in the district dispossesses their living as well as communality  +31.25%

        • but: the government pays compensation and allocate new home to people in reclaiming their property  -4.17%

          • but: the compensation can never be adequate  +58.33%

            • because: people who have been living and doing business there relies heavily on the neighborhood and community for their daily living  +58.33%

      • because: renewals often lead to the destruction of the original infrastructures of the district representing the collective memory of the community  -20.83%

        • but: a good urban renewal project takes the preservation of historical buildings into account, tries to protect the important heritages if it is possible  +83.33%

  • but: though many people receive the benefit, the largest sector goes into private corporations, investors, instead of the people in the community  +25%

    • because: after renovating the old district, land and flats can be sold in a better price  +50%


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