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[monograph] Cultural Architecture and Late-colonial Space: Constructing Cultural Centres in Hong Kong
Routledge Research in Architecture Series, Jun 2025 | The book offers the first in-depth study of three major Hong Kong public cultural architecture works built in the late-colonial years – the Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Shatin Town Hall, and the…
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Cultural Centers in Hong Kong: Welfare Provision or Economic Instrument?
Abstract: “Cultural center” is a new type of architecture and institution that has emerged since WWII and has become a model for many contemporary cultural institutions. It reflects the physical realization of the European welfare-state cultural policy, especially in Britain…
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Melody Hoi-lam YIU (2024), “No room for culture? A brief review of cultural and urban planning in Hong Kong since the late 20th century”. In Ian Morley and Hendrik Tieben (eds.), International Planning History Society Proceedings, 20th IPHS Conference, “The (High Density) Metropolis and Region in Planning History,” Hong Kong, 2 – 5 July, 2024, TU Delft Open. <link>
Melody H YIU, Hendrik TIEBEN (2024), “Community Public Space Transformation – Local Sensitivity and Collaborative Networks”, HKIA Journal. Issue 79. Hong Kong Institute of Architects <link>
Resilience/Resistance – The 23rd Annual International Conference of Cultural Studies Association | “From Cultural Landmark to Everyday Public Space: An Infrastructural Approach towards Cultural Development” | Taichung, Taiwan. March 2023
G. Talamini, C. Villani, D.G. Shane, F. Rossini & M.H. Yiu (2023), “Of other waterfront spaces: mixed methods to discern heterotopias” | Landscape Research, 48:3, 375-395. <link>
Francesco ROSSINI, Melody YIU (2020), “Public Open Spaces in Private Developments in Hong Kong” | Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 14:2, 237-261. <link>UNNC Symposium – Disruption vs Integration: pathways to Urban Transformation | “Socio-Spatial Analysis Methods: Reading Cultural Public Space through Architectural Plans” | Ningbo, China (online). July 2020
The 7th International Conference on Architecture and Built Environment | “The Formation of Public Space at Cultural Buildings” | Tokyo, Japan (online). April 2020
XXVI International Seminar on Urban Form: Cities as Assemblages | “Beyond Building Envelop: Urban Form of Cultural Public Space” | Nicosia, Cyprus. July 2019
Hiroyuki SHINOHARA, Melody YIU (2019), “Collective Form for Post-Developmental Inner-city Regeneration”. <link> | 2019 XJTLU International Conference: Architecture across Boundaries Volume 2019, KnE Social Sciences, pp 168–181. | Suzhou, China. Jun 2019
Island Dynamics International Conference: Culture in Urban Space | “Culture for a city: a brief account of the evolution of cultural buildings and its public space in Hong Kong.” | Macau. Apr 2019
International Forum of Urbanism: The Entrepreneurial City | “In between the Suburb Masterplans” & “Patchwork City” (co-author with Hiroyuki SHINOHARA) | Hong Kong. Dec 2017
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