Projects
As part of the work of the students and staff in the MSUD Programme, a range of different academic projects is generated each year. These projects include student design projects and thesis reports, several of which are translated into academic publications in international conferences and journals.
Below is a publication featuring student design projects and thesis papers from the Urban Design Studio II produced between 2019-2021.
New Territories Tomorrow – Rethinking Hong Kong’s New Towns
Edited by: Jeroen van Ameijde and Sifan Cheng
About this publication:
As Hong Kong continues to evolve as part of the economic and urban development of the Greater Bay Area, the strategic potential of the New Territories is evident. This publication presents a series of projects and essays exploring the changing role of Hong Kong’s New Towns, developed in the context of the Master of Science in Urban Design programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Through theoretical research and speculative proposals, the work investigates how urban design strategies can promote the vibrancy of new towns, to support entrepreneurialism, collaboration and social mobility. It is shown how public spaces and placemaking processes can play a crucial role in the upgrading of neighbourhoods and community life, and how a comprehensive and human-centric planning approach can incorporate principles of liveability and ecological performance.
The Entrepreneurial City – 10th Conference of The International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU)
Edited by: Hendrik Tieben, Yan Geng and Francesco Rossini
About this publication:
Unbiased views and open debate are strongly needed in the field of urbanism to face the current challenges on global level: urban development is confronted with the fastest urbanisation in history of mankind, resulting in uneven and unequal growth, environmental risks that no longer can be limited to one city, one country or one continent, increasing political conflicts, suppression, ousting and displacement. To face these challenges, the contradictory role of the city as centre of welfare and culture on the one hand, as concentration of political, social and environmental problems on the other must be questioned again.
The 10th conference of IFoU focuses on one of the most important topics for urban development in this framework. How can the city generate work, income and welfare for its residents, how can the city attract investment and new sources of employment, how can the city offer space for new and innovative economic developments, in summary: how can the city become entrepreneurial? The conditions for the entrepreneurial city have been changed profoundly during the last decennia. Globalisation and a more and more footloose economy generated a climate of increasing competition between cities and regions, migration and the amount of (political and economic) fugitives reached a new scale, jobs and employment became unstable and insecure, climate change and other environmental issues require new approaches for working and living. Under these conditions ‘… planning must become reflexive: it must reflect all possible impacts in the most circumspect manner’ (U. Beck).