The Making of Hong Kong:
3D pedestrian network as the critical walking infrastructure
The three-dimensional pedestrian network, enabling multi-level city living in a vertical metropolis, is a fundamental consideration in urban planning and design practices for high-density cities.
The Making of Hong Kong:
3D pedestrian network as the critical walking infrastructure
The three-dimensional pedestrian network, enabling multi-level city living in a vertical metropolis, is a fundamental consideration in urban planning and design practices for high-density cities.
A research team within HKUrbanLabs, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong
Street, public space
and their experiments
We are investigating the street experiments that bridge the mobility and public space functions, to look at how short-term actions lead to long-term changes. Our engagements include experiments and design studios in the communities.
Research objectives
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Randomised controlled experiments on greenery and health
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Investigate the relationship between short-term actions and long-term changes on streets
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Understand the street design code in high-density cities
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Investigate how accurate data empower urban analytics
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Participate the place-making in street and open spaces
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Study methods to provide the blue and green infrastructure through social innovation
Ongoing Research
Funded by HKUrbanlabs (2021.07-2024.07) & HKU Research Output Prize (2022.01-2023.01)
Jianting Zhao, Dr Guibo Sun
Funded by HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship (2022.09-2026.09 )
Scarlet Tong
Funded by RGC/DAAD, "Intercultural perspectives for understanding how people experience everyday space and place" (Germany/ Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme, 2021.01-2023.01 )
Dr Guibo Sun, Jianting Zhao, Dr Rene Westerholt
Recent Research
Funded by HKU Seed Fund, "Walkability and housing price in high-density cities of China" (2017.11-2019.11)
Jianting Zhao, Dr Guibo Sun, Prof. Chris Webster
Funded by HKUrbanLabs (2016.02- 2018.06)
Dr Guibo Sun, Prof. Chris Webster, Dr Xiaohu Zhang
Funded by the EU’s Interreg North Sea region’s BluE and Green Infrastructure and social iNnovation
(BEGIN) project
Dr Eun Yeong Choe, Dr Anna Kenyon, Prof. Liz Sharp
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PhD thesis
Faculty of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield
Dr Eun Yeong Choe, Prof. Anna Jorgensen, Prof. David Sheffield
PhD thesis
Faculty of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield
Dr Eun Yeong Choe, Prof. Anna Jorgensen, Prof. David Sheffield