Hong kong tourism board work plan1/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Constraint: 70 percent of total territory (1,100 square kilometers) is mountains only 20 percent is available for urban development.Today, demographic changes, resource constraints, and political complacency have prompted questions about the city’s path: Will Hong Kong remain a positive example of sustainable urban growth? ![]() While I set out to understand a series of best practices for urban sustainability (there are some), I was left with was a sense that Hong Kong is in the midst of an identity crisis. To follow up on my feature earlier this month-which covered the challenges in scaling up sustainable growth, given that 70 percent of all people will live in cities by 2050-I spoke to a diverse group of stakeholders in Hong Kong to understand what we can learn from the city’s apparent infrastructure development successes and how we can apply these lessons to other cities. Hong Kong has also enjoyed the flexibility to experiment with greener, socially conscious, and more sustainable development at its own pace. The city’s emphasis on infrastructure has been its traditional path to development, with new towns and a mass transit railway in the 1970s and 1980s, airport and seaport development in the 1990s, and increased bridge and rail links to mainland China in the 2000s. When it comes to sustainable urban growth, Hong Kong has been a noted success story and possible model for mainland China and other emerging economies. ![]() Read part one, on the private sector’s role in sustainable urban development, here. Note: This is the second of a multi-part series on sustainable urban growth. ![]()
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