This paper examines the form and activity transformations in a built-up urban area, following the development of a pedestrian facility. The particular implementation of the Central to Mid-levels Escalator (1993) facilitated the re-use of street- and upper-floor space, while also attracting real...

Certain pedestrian facilities, by their nature and the spatial imperatives they impose, exert a powerful role in organizing and promoting the development of associated central places. The need for an expanded public space in the city has found expression in the new public spaces that have...

Transportation demand continues to grow at an even faster rate than the economies of Chinese cities, placing increasing pressure on a limited road network. In certain cities of the more highly developed coastal plains, the bicycle assumed a dominant role in urban transport in the 1980s, a...