K. S. Pun’s scientific contributions

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Urban Planning in Hong Kong: Its Evolution since 1948
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February 1984

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Third World Planning Review

K. S. Pun

In the last 30 years there has been a strengthening trend toward more central planning control. This will mean more statutory town plans but also concern with renewal and comprehensive redevelopment, environmental protection, rural land use control, and greater public participation. Central control and authority will need to have due regard for flexibility with the formulation of principles and practices designed specifically to suit the unique Hong Kong conditions. -D.Hilling Town Planning Div, Lands Dept, Government of Hong Kong.

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... It is harder, especially for town planners who have no education in planning history, to see the Crown Lease for a lot, being a part of a wider layout, as a bona fide town plan in its own right. Pun (1984), who retired as the second Director of Planning of Hong Kong (after Mr. Robert Upton), represented a Crown lease as a means of implementing administrative layouts (LPs and ODPs). In reality, the layouts were implemented by developers according to a lease drawn with reference to a government layout. ...

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A race between urban growth and regulation: An empirical case study on the layout plan
Urban Planning in Hong Kong: Its Evolution since 1948
  • Citing Article

  • February 1984

Third World Planning Review

K. S. Pun