Ho-Yin Lee and Lynne DiStefano ended off their talk with Four Principles to Conservation and Ten Living City Killers.
4 Principles to Conservation
- Managing the pace of change (environmental sustainability)
- allowing for continuity of social and physical fabric (social sustainability)
- support urban community’s cultural heritage (cultural sustainability)
- protect tangible and intangible heritage most valued to direct stakeholders (political sustainability)
Living City Killers
- The Nostalgic City
- Keep all the old buildings, but set them up as a museum or archaeological site.
- The Amnesia City
- Make everything new
- City is under perpetual construction
- Mega Shopping Paradise
- The mega shopping mall is destroying neighbourhoods
- Nostalgic Shopping Paradise
- Destroy the original neighbourhood, then rebuild it through an imitation
- Save the Shell
- Save the Face
- The Tourist Town
- but no community
- Tourist Theme Park
- A Disneyland environment, but again with no community
- Top-Down Approach
- Father knows best method
- Ignores the community
- Money-trail
- Buy out the community
After their Top 10 List, Lynne and Ho-Yin just had one more thing to say:
“See Hong Kong and Die.”
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