Abstract
With the aim of promoting sustainable conservation and development of historic buildings in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong government introduced the Revitalizing Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme in 2007 to conserve and revitalize government-owned historic buildings. Since the announcement of the Revitalization Scheme, many people have criticized that the revitalization projects ended up not for the benefit of the local communities. Based on a completed revitalization project (the former North Kowloon Magistracy building) and situated within the literature of revitalization practices, community involvement, community evaluation, and impact assessment, this paper explored how community involvement with the revitalization project might influence the community’s evaluation of the project’s outcomes. The research found that community connections or involvement with the revitalization project significantly affected the community’s evaluation of the project’s various impacts.
Highlights
In the current literature on revitalizing obsolescent historic buildings, strategic development plans largely emphasize the conservation and adaptive reuse of original buildings [1] [2]
On the basis of a completed revitalization project, the former North Kowloon Magistracy (NKM) building, this study explored the following questions: Did the conservation and revitalization practices contradict the local economic development objectives? What factors significantly affected the local community’s evaluations of the revitalization project in Hong Kong? How did community involvement influence the levels of community evaluation of the project?
This study explored how community involvement influenced the community’s evaluation of the revitalization projects in Hong Kong
Summary
In the current literature on revitalizing obsolescent historic buildings, strategic development plans largely emphasize the conservation and adaptive reuse of original buildings [1] [2]. In October 2007, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government proactively responded to the criticism by introducing the Revitalizing Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme to conserve and revitalize local government-owned historic buildings [7]. Under this scheme, the government would pay all initial costs related to the building renovations for subsequent leasing to service providers of social enterprises without expecting them to shoulder these costs. Given the context that economic development plays a dominant role in the urban development plans of the Hong Kong government, this study interlinked several key issues, including the revitalization project, community involvement, community. On the basis of a completed revitalization project, the former North Kowloon Magistracy (NKM) building, this study explored the following questions: Did the conservation and revitalization practices contradict the local economic development objectives? What factors significantly affected the local community’s evaluations of the revitalization project in Hong Kong? How did community involvement influence the levels of community evaluation of the project?
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