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In Preface, we raise the following questions: As one of the major economic pillars, how did urban architecture help Hong Kong’s transformation and economic miracles in its last 50 years before the sovereignty handover? How did the building projects represent and symbolize the various stages during this period of transformation? What are the driving forces for building development in different stages? What contributions has Hong Kong architecture made to China, Asia and the world?
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The World Economic Forum and Swiss Research Institute of International Management and Development have compiled the world’s competitiveness rankings since 1989. The analysis relies on four aspects: economic performance, government efficiency, enterprise efficiency and infrastructure. See World Economic Forum (2015).
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The Wall Street Journal and American Heritage Foundation run economic freedom ranking based on 50 indexes of economic freedom to calculate the scores of countries. The average points are the mark of a country or area. See The Heritage Foundation (2015).
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International financial centers are global cities that provide financial services based on their tertiary industries. For a list of the international financial center rankings, see Wikipedia (2015).
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The term “New-Lon-Kong” is quoted from Michael Elliott, see Elliott (2008).
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The world architectural 100 ranking has been run by the World Architecture magazine in London for two decades. It announces the result in January every year. The result includes 100 largest design firms in terms of staff number and fee earning. It also includes statistics on the design of building types, like office, hotel, retail etc. See http://www.bdonline.co.uk/wa100-2015-the-big-list/5072847.article, accessed 30 Dec 2015.
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The design workload was estimated from the investigations conducted by the author in Hong Kong since 1999.
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For the life expectancy, living space and CO2 emission of Hong Kong, Singapore, New York City, UK, Germany, Canada, USA and Australia, see Elsea (2014).
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Xue, C.Q.L. (2016). Conclusion: “Made in Hong Kong” Design. In: Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1004-0_11
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