West Kowloon Cultural District WKCD

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West Kowloon Cultural District(WKCD)
Is it a sustainable development?
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Where is it?

• MTR's Kowloon Station

• walk 10 to 15 minutes from the bus stop at
  the West Harbor Crossing toll plaza

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• In charge by the Urban Renewal Authority
• Work with
• Consultative Committee (CC) on the Core Arts and
  Cultural Facilities (CACF)
• the Performing Arts and Tourism Advisory Group
  (PATAG)
• the Museums Advisory Group (MAG)
• the Financial Matters Advisory Group (FMAG)

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Aims

• An icon for culture and leisure with
  self-sufficient and sustainable manner
• Enhance Hong Kong's position as a world city of
  culture

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What to do?

• Reclamation of Victoria Harbor
• of 40-hectare site
• Core arts and cultural facilities
• To cover the operational deficits by

• Selling residential, hotel and office part of
  commercial sites through the normal land-sale
  mechanism
• vesting the retail, dining and entertainment
  facilities (steady recurrent income)

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The core facilities of WKCD (2003)

• Three theatres with at least 2,000, 800 and 400
  seats
• A performance venue with at least 10,000 seats
• A cluster (????) of four museums at least 75,000
  square meters in size
• An art exhibition centre at least 10,000 square
  meters in size
• A water amphitheatre(??????)
• At least four piazzas(????)
• A canopy covering at least 55 of the development
  area

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WKCD(2007)

• Balanced development mix
• Total gross floor area of about 726,000 square
  meters
• Residential development (no more than 20 of this
  gross floor area)
• High height restrictions to safeguard the harbor
  view
• Office node outside the central business district
  
• a base load of weekday entertainment facilities

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• 15 performing arts venues
• (increase the total setting capacity of the
  city's performance venues by 37)
• New cultural institution entitled M, for "Museum
  Plus
• companies, meeting rooms and common facilities
  for artists and arts groups
• arts-education venues
• arts and cultural information centre

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The benefits for Hong Kong

• Nurture local arts talents create more
  opportunities for arts groups
• Encourage creativity
• Enhance international cultural exchanges
• Put Hong Kong on the world arts and culture map
• Enrich cultural life
• Enhance our harbor front
• Raise quality of life

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• Create jobs (more than 11,000 jobs)
• Attract overseas visitors
• Attract retain investors and talents
• Reinforce economic integration with the Pearl
  River Delta
• Relieve the shortage of performance venues
• More resources to be allocated to support and
  promote arts development and strengthen arts
  education

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Whats sustainable development?

• A self-regulating system
• Last for a long term
• Promote high quality of life
• Meet present-days demand
• Without compromising the ability of future
  generations to meet their needs

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Socially

• Arts cultural promotion
• Foster talents
• Improve individual temperament(??)
• Land for residential housings
• Relieve rapid urban population growth
• Spread out congested urban environment
• Meet needs of leisure, recreational facilities
  for entertainment
• Social harmonization
• Improve life quality
• Raise status of HK as a world city
• Benefit prospects of future generation

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Economically

• Land for arts cultural facilities
• Attracts tourists
• Land for commercial offices
• Attracts investments from overseas and mainland
  China
• Health fiscal situation
• Sustainable economic development
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• Temporary job employment
• High unemployment rate remain unchanged
• Money time consuming

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Environmentally

• Ease serious air pollution with more trees
• BUT
• Land pollution
• Narrow spaciousness of Victoria Harbor
• Stronger sea wave
• Unfavorable circumstance of shipping
• Harmful to natural harbor asset
• Reduce attractiveness of famous harbor view
• Sea wildlife habitats affected

The destruction is PERMANENT!
Once we have obtained land through reclamation,
the original priceless natural harbor asset
cannot be restored
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News

• West Kowloon hub empowered to cover costs
• Greens want open space in district
• ???????M????
• ??????????? ?????190? ????????

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References

• http//maps.google.com/
• http//weskln.hkcommunities.net/
• http//www.devb-plb.gov.hk/wkcd/eng/site.htm
• http//www.hab.gov.hk/wkcd/pe/chi/report.htm
• http//www.hab.gov.hk/wkcd/pe/eng/intro.htm
• http//www.news.gov.hk/en/category/infrastructurea
  ndlogistics/070912/html/070912en06003.htm

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• Numbers 6,10,21,22,33

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Feedback from Teacher

• I like the aerial photos and maps showing the
  site
• Clearly expressed ideas. Good!