Download or read book Evaluating Historical Buildings Within Urban Renewal Authority's Redevelopment Projects in Hong Kong written by Yin-Sheung Veronica Luk and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Evaluating Historical Buildings Within Urban Renewal Authority's Redevelopment Projects in Hong Kong" by Yin-sheung, Veronica, Luk, 陸迎霜, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of dissertation entitled EVALUATING HISTORICAL BUILDINGS WITHIN THE URBAN RENEWAL AUTHORITY'S REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN HONG KONG submitted by Veronica Luk Yin-sheung for the degree of Master of Science in Conservation at the University of Hong Kong in September 2002 The Hong Kong Government, in its 1999 Policy Address, has pledged to incorporate heritage preservation into all projects for redeveloping old areas. With an emphasis on architectural merit, conventional assessment methods are inadequate to evaluate the deep-rooted social value of historical buildings within the redevelopment projects of the Urban Renewal Authority (URA), the main vehicle to carry out urban redevelopment in Hong Kong. This dissertation presents a more balanced framework for evaluating historical buildings to be incorporated into the URA's redevelopment projects. Hence, the subsequent conservation plans will be more focused to the needs and expectations of the community, which minimizes the disintegrate impact brought about by urban renewal. It examines the concept of cultural significance established in The Burra Charter: The Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance 1999 that determines the "values" of historical buildings and compares overseas evaluation criteria with the local perspective of the Antiquities and Monuments Office. The Historical Building Evaluation Form (Evaluation Form) in this dissertation, developed from a study of Harold Kalman's evaluation framework in Canada, allows flexibility in assigning scores according to how the values of the building rank against criteria. The process of formulating the Evaluation Form, from the selection of criteria, score distribution, categorization of evaluation results, to its application with a set of guidance notes, is presented in this dissertation. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3147636 Subjects: Historic buildings - Conservation and restoration - China - Hong Kong Urban renewal - China - Hong Kong