The Impact of Building Control on Urban Planning and Building Management in Hong Kong

Zou, Han; Xue, Charlie Q. L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14145-9_30

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“…Therefore, the benefit of spending resources including money and time in ensuring compliancy should be more than the benefit of conducting unlawful works (Mohamed Sabri et al , 2018). On the other hand, Khan et al (2010) and Zou and Xue (2015) perceive the framework as motivating and constraining performance at the same time. While creating a baseline that ensure quality of the built environment, building codes and regulations inevitably give the practitioners constraints to work within whenever there are inconsistent, obsolete or uncertain requirements.…”

Section: Problems and Issues Of Non-compliant Building Workmentioning

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Discrepancies between national and state building by-laws in Malaysia: a review

Kamarulzaman

Azmi

Sulaiman

et al. 2022

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Purpose Malaysia’s building regulation is mainly based on the Uniform Building By-Laws (UBBL) 1984 which provides guidelines on the procedures for building plans approval and other means of development control. However, the application of these by-laws varies between local authorities, as they are gazetted by different state governments. The formulation of UBBL 1984 which was originally formulated to address the need for a standardized set of building regulations for the country is now perceived as inconsistent and complex. Therefore, this research attempts to examine the discrepancies between state by-laws, particularly Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur and national UBBL 1984. Design/methodology/approach Critical review of the content of the UBBL (Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur) 1985 and national UBBL 1984 was carried out to pinpoint discrepancies between the two by-laws. Findings Differences between national UBBL and Kuala Lumpur By-laws fall into four main categories particularly terminology, prescriptive requirements, presence of terms and by-laws. Three editorial spelling and typing errors were also found in the national UBBL 1984. It is argued that the errors and differences lead to confusion and pose unnecessary regulatory burden to the construction industry which ultimately discourage people to disobey the rules. The identified discrepancies between these by-laws showed an urgent need to review the current building by-laws considering today’s technologies, norms and citizen needs. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first of many fruitful contributions that examine discrepancies between by-laws that govern building control matters in Malaysia. Although centred on legislation in Malaysia, the findings are relevant for governments around the world working towards improving public service delivery.

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Section: Problems and Issues Of Non-compliant Building Workmentioning

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Discrepancies between national and state building by-laws in Malaysia: a review

Kamarulzaman

Azmi

Sulaiman

et al. 2022

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“…Urban clusters significantly reduce traffic through a mixed agglomeration of various land-use functions [1,2,3,4]. Specifically, a land-use multifunctional cluster in a clustered city has relatively well-developed infrastructure and residential facilities [5], meeting the needs of the majority of residents in the cluster, thus reducing cross-regional travels [1,2,3,4]. Xu et al [6] found that a small activity space was enough to fulfill the demands of the majority of residents in Shenzhen, China, consistent with the municipal government’s goal to achieve a clustered city.…”

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Detecting and Evaluating Urban Clusters with Spatiotemporal Big Data

Tang

Gao

Ren

et al. 2019

Sensors

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The design of urban clusters has played an important role in urban planning, but realizing the construction of these urban plans is quite a long process. Hence, how the progress is evaluated is significant for urban managers in the process of urban construction. Traditional methods for detecting urban clusters are inaccurate since the raw data is generally collected from small sample questionnaires of resident trips rather than large-scale studies. Spatiotemporal big data provides a new lens for understanding urban clusters in a natural and fine-grained way. In this article, we propose a novel method for Detecting and Evaluating Urban Clusters (DEUC) with taxi trajectories and Sina Weibo check-in data. Firstly, DEUC applies an agglomerative hierarchical clustering method to detect urban clusters based on the similarities in the daily travel space of urban residents. Secondly, DEUC infers resident demands for land-use functions using a naïve Bayes’ theorem, and three indicators are adopted to assess the rationality of land-use functions in the detected clusters—namely, cross-regional travel index, commuting direction index, and fulfilled demand index. Thirdly, DEUC evaluates the progress of urban cluster construction by calculating a proposed conformance indicator. In the case study, we applied our method to detect and analyze urban clusters in Wuhan, China in the years 2009, 2014, and 2015. The results suggest the effectiveness of the proposed method, which can provide a scientific basis for urban construction.

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Waterfront development and planning control: a case study of Victoria Dockside in Hong Kong

Xue

Leung

2022

Urban Des Int

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The Impact of Building Control on Urban Planning and Building Management in Hong Kong

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Discrepancies between national and state building by-laws in Malaysia: a review

Discrepancies between national and state building by-laws in Malaysia: a review

Detecting and Evaluating Urban Clusters with Spatiotemporal Big Data

Waterfront development and planning control: a case study of Victoria Dockside in Hong Kong

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