TY - BOOK AU - Shelton, Barrie TI - Making of Hong Kong : from vertical to volumetric T2 - Planning, history and environment series SN - 9780415487016 U1 - 307.76095125 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Cities and towns KW - City planning -- China -- Hong Kong KW - Urbanization -- China -- Hong Kong. KW - City planning -- Environmental aspects -- China -- Hong Kong N1 - 1. A state of Inten City-- 2. Precedents 3. Long, Low and Intense : From possession Point to world War II - 4. Massing and Riding: The Post - War Decades 5.Vertical and Volumetric : Post 1980 6. Podium and Tower 7. Emerging Volumetric : Components 8.Conclusion : Vertical and Volumetric N2 - Investigating what the history of Hong Kong's urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism, this book offers a study of the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong ER -