Sustainable Place-Making in Hong Kong: Transforming Urban Crisis to Urban Renewal Opportunities

As the discipline of architecture and urban design develop renewed interests in social responsibility associated with participatory design and collaborative place-making, it becomes more critical to review the potential and limitations in current collaboration process. The intrinsic proposition of bottom-up planning implies new approaches on how architecture operates in the context of modernity to manifest itself in the discourse of urban crisis. By examining case studies in the Asian context, we observe an emerging design pedagogy in Hong Kong which involves interdisciplinary coalition of professionals and local stakeholders in community development as an architectural rubric when confronted with social and urban crisis.