HONG KONG'S FUTURE IS GUIDED BY TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE.

摘要: Hong Kong is a maritime metropolis with 6.7 million inhabitants, very little land and one of the highest population densities in world. The postwar cityscape can best be described as forest skyscrapers standing against mountains. Skyscrapers are most common structure because they offer an excellent ratio volume to surface area. With its small area large population, shows symptoms whose transit network must deal burdensome constraints. Because need coordinate massive passenger flows, make scarce expensive profitable, cope weight excessive centralization business activities, government has continued promote greater accessibility for more than 30 years. This goal, which complex, but create added value, vital every wishing maintain status within community major world cities. Kong’s reputation economic stem from global-trade service sectors, latter being responsible 89% current GDP. creative nature effectiveness development projects depend on their ability form multiple links metropolis. In Kong, modernization requires coordinated mastery movement, whether local, regional or global, especially since tourism, depends partly quality services transportation, second largest income source after commerce. By late 1990s, had introduced wide array new significant transportation infrastructure equipment. These include Chek Lap Kok Airport Lantau Island, Kowloon intermodal station Tsing Ma bridge. Other facilities structures still planning stage. One important was movement international airport city centre outskirts, involved realigning city’s corridors (see JRTR 19, pp. 36–43). long term, it will likely change configuration urban centres too. addition network, airport’s location offered opportunities, through redevelopment 230 ha vacated growth promoted by denser use interconnecting nodes additional reclaimed land. Working together, leading operators have succeeded seizing this opportunity raise 21st-century Construction accompanied several rail road aimed at establishing direct, rapid connect ions f rom gateway centre. addition, some lots near railway stations were earmarked high potential sites future adjacent corridors. innovative these developments, district Tung Chung (originally expected accommodate 180,000 inhabitants airport), taken advantage now represents part drive balanced moving westward saturated central core.