Abstract: The community question, referring to the transformation of social networks when rural residents move into urban areas, has been extensively debated by urbanists and sociologists in Western countries. This paper, focusing ...

Abstract: There has been a sharp increase in the number of Sino-Foreign Joint Venture (SFJV) construction projects in the People’s Republic of China since the 1990s. Despite the Chinese Government’s new measures for boosting foreign ...

Abstract: In common with some underprivileged racial groups in U.S. cities, migrant workers tend to be regarded as an undesirable group in Chinese urban societies. The ongoing influx of migrant workers into urban neighborhoods will ...

Abstract: Hong Kong is well known for its high-density form of development. Such form of development is shaped either by new development or urban renewal, which is a major tactic nowadays adopted by the Hong Kong Government to improve ...

Abstract: This paper explores a unique case of a community-initiated urban regeneration through the adaptive reuse of historic buildings in the Tianzifang district in Shanghai. The adaptive reuse of historic buildings has increasingly ...

Abstract: The decades of economic boom have brought about intensive spatial transformation and restructuring since market-oriented reforms in China. Such spatial adjustments have generated the manifestation of spatial mismatch in ...

Abstract: China has experienced an unprecedented level of farmland conversion for urban development despite the fact that farmland remains a highly scarce and valuable resource in this densely populated country. The causes of this ...

Abstract: A major part of the building control system in any country has to do with quality assurance (QA) of building the process and the products. As in many other countries, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administration ...

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to empirically evaluate the transformational and transactional leadership styles among building professionals in the construction industry. This is part of a large-scale research project ...