Transcript Urban functions

Urban functions
Q1.give reasons for the land uses
that you assigned to each area
Reasons for the residential location
Most of the land uses are the residential land use and
are clustered in the town centre.
-Government planning --- Tsuen Wan is a early new town
-historical inertia ---The Tsuen Wan town was dominated to
residential use (as early as Sung Dynasty 宋朝)
-Along the main road (Castle Peak Road 青山公路)
-Convenient transportation and other services

Industrial location
 The industries are located along the Tsuen
Wan’s boundary,due to
-lower land rent
-larger area available for industrial activities
-less influence of pollution to the clustering
-transport improvement and facilitated transport of
resources and finished goods
Commercial location
 The commercial land uses are evenly distributed
within the town
-to serve the different consumers within the
town
-because of different range of good(low order
good)
Other
 The transportation,recreation and government
institution community(GIC) are evenly distributed
within the town
for the residents convenience
government planning
easy to administrate
Question 2
Compare your results with other
groups.
Is there any significant difference? If
yes, suggest reasons.
Area
Difference
2
Commercial VS Industrial
Area 2
 For
group 1, we think that the building is
used for selling vehicles.
 For group 2, they think the building is
used for repairing vehicles.
 So there is difference between
identification of land use.
 With further studied, we concluded that
the area is industrial land use.
8
Commercial
VS
Residential
The reason is that the
building we choose is
20 Commercial different to other group.
VS
Residential
28
Commercial
VS
Residential
Zone 8
Zone 28
Question 3
 Can
any one of the three models,
Concentric Model, Sector Model
and Multiple-nuclei Model, apply to
Tsuen Wan Town? Justify your
answer.
Identification on town center
 High accessibility
 High land rent
 Tall buildings
 High population flow
 Town Center: Area 16, 26
 We believe that the three models can be partly
applied to the area we studied.
 Concentric Model:
 There is a MTR station in area 16, which has a
good accessibility.
 We can find there are some commercial areas
near to the MTR station (i.e. Area 2, 8, 15).
 However, with increasing distance from town
center, we can rarely find commercial area. Even
if there are commercial area, the order of goods
is lower. The major land use is residential land
use.
 So Concentric Model can also be applied to the
area we studied.
 Sector Model:
 Transition Zone: Area 9, 18, 30
 Reasons: Old buildings, small number of storeys,
and squatters can be found.
 Low class residential: Area 3, 4, 9, 18, 30
 Reasons: Short buildings, long history, poor
living environment, lack of open space.
 Middle class residential: Area 6, 36
 Reasons: Taller buildings, better environment
due to re-developed.
 High class residential: Area 26
 Reasons: Better government planning, Tall
buildings, more open space, better sea
view(Area 7).
 Main road: Castle Peak Road(青山公路)and
Tai Ho Road(大河道) leads to better
accessibility.( Wider road )
 As a result, sector model can be applied to the
study area.(Tsuen Wan)
 Multiple-nuclei Model:
 Reasons: In area 24, there will be a
development of commercial area. Moreover, the
accessibility will also be improved because new
transport route will be constructed(West Rail).
 In area 24, there is a bus terminal which
increase the accessibility. With further
development, there will be a China Town(如心
廣場). So we estimate that there will be a new
town center.
 As a result, we can find more than one town
center in Tsuen Wan(Area 19, 20, 21 and Area
24).
 Furthermore, there is a repulsion of some
activities by others. We can obviously see that
area 1(Industrial land use) and area 29(High
class residential).
 So we can see that multiple-nuclei Model could
be applied in the Tsuen Wan Area).
Question 4
Compare
your answer to other
groups.
Explain if there are any
differences.
 Other
group do not think that
concentric model could be applied in
the area we studied.
Reason
 They believe that the model has no obvious
concentric land use pattern within the
area.(Layout)
 For our group, we aim at the underlying principle.
Q.5 The longest history and newly
developed zone in Tsuen Wan

Longest history : Zone 22
Reasons: 1.It was developed since 1685
2.Buildings are short (about 5 to 10 floors)
3.No lift
4.lack of open space and facilities
5.shabby and old appearance
6.illegal attachment
7.urban decay is found
8.aging population

Newly developed : zone 24
reasons: 1.well-planned
2.work in progress
3.have been developing after 1985
4.new facilities
5.recreationTsuen Wan Park
6.Podium act as a noise barrier
Q.6 Urban growth of Tsuen Wan
town throughout these 30 years
 From 1973 to 1983
More housings were built
Reasons: market provided jobs to low class
residents to attract people to move in and
increase the population
-because of lower land rent
 From 1983 to 1993
More industries moved away from city centre
Reasons:-lower land rent (than the Kowloon urban)
-transport improvement(e.g.MTR)
-near the port easy transport for
resources and finished goods to other countries
-a new transport route (Tuen Mun
Highway 屯門公路) to newly develop town(Tin
Shui Wai 天水圍) and a gateway to south
China
 From 1993 to now
-some industries area were closed
-because of some industries move to S.China
-new construction site of a new commercial
building (zone 24, ChinaTown如心廣場)
-because of the urban decay, and government build
more new constructions ,i.e.urban renewal
Supplementary
 There have a new developed center (Discovery
Park 愉景新城)
 But Discovery Park is out of our field study area
yesterday
Supplementary
 Because Discovery Park can provide not only
low order of good
 But also some high order good
 And we can found a bus terminal there
So we can also call it is a town in Tseun Wan