Urban land uses within walking catchment of metro stations in a transit-oriented city
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Urban land uses within walking catchment of metro stations in a transit‑oriented city Bo‑sin Tang1 · Siu Wai Wong2 · Winky K. O. Ho2 · Kwan To Wong3 Received: 22 April 2019 / Accepted: 23 April 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Investment in rapid transit infrastructure brings spatial changes in cities. Urban land uses compete to occupy precious, accessible locations around metro stations. This study explores the land use characteristics and spatial distribution of private development within a 500 m walking catchment of metro stations of Hong Kong between 1981 and 2017. It concludes that, while metro station continued to be a magnet to commercial-office development, especially within and near traditional CBD districts, they have gradually spread to the outer industrial districts. Housing uses were being pushed and pulled out of the urban core. Proximity to a metro station has a strong, positive impact on both Business and Hospitality Land Uses, relative to housing and industrial development. Planning policies have played a strong role in influencing the land use selection of private developers on land within the station catchment areas, leading to a high inter-station differentiation of land use mixes. Relaxation of government regulations, coupled with market circumstances, caused a recent wave of new development of hotels and serviced apartments which out-competed commercial-offices in occupying prime locations near stations. Keywords Rail transit · Transit-oriented development · Land use · Metro · Hong Kong
* Bo‑sin Tang [email protected] Siu Wai Wong [email protected] Winky K. O. Ho [email protected] Kwan To Wong [email protected] 1
Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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1 Introduction Vibrant cities rely on an efficient and effective transport system. In recent years, there is a revival of global interest in rail transit. The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) has recorded that over 40% of the total length of metro infrastructure worldwide were inaugurated during the past 15 years since the turn of the millennium. The World Metro Rail Summit 2012 also estimated that close to 230 densely populated cities, particularly in the developing countries, had plans of metro rail development. Investment in metro rail infrastructure is often seen by the city governments not only as a means to achieve a greener urban economy, but also as a tool to bring about urban spatial restructuring. Conventional urban theories suggest that rail transit will improve land accessibility and hence will cause transformation of the built environment. However, global experiences have demonstrated a rather complex relationship between metro transit and spatial changes, and investment in the former does not nece
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