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The growing elderly population living in high density cities undergoing mass urbanization raises concerns over age-friendliness of neighborhood open space, an essential component for healthy aging-in-place as elderly tend to spend most of their time at home and immediate home environment. This study discusses factors that influence age-friendly open space design pertaining to outdoor thermal environment and physical design element for high-density high-rise housing in hot weather, using the case

Using semi-structured interviews with 160 university students, this paper analyses the anticipated housing pathways of young Chinese in Hong Kong and compares between local Hong Kong and non-local mainland students. We identify six different anticipated housing pathways by considering differences in expectations of parental support and perceptions about the affordability of homeownership. We find that expectations of financial support from parents are particularly important for non-local mainland

The exchange of radiant fluxes between different surfaces in an outdoor environment can be described with an enclosure theory. It provides a physical understanding of the relationship between different surfaces and consequent radiant fluxes within an enclosure, which is constructed by including surfaces of building façades and an imaginary surface of sky dome. Radiant fluxes on a surface can be expressed as linear combinations of view factors. This study examines the linear dependencies of urban

Using semi-structured interviews with 160 university students in Hong Kong, this paper analyses whether there are differences in the anticipated housing pathways of local Hong Kong students and non-local mainland students. The paper develops a theoretical framework for analysing housing pathways based on Clapham’s (2005) concept by focusing on the degree of financial support from parents in purchasing an apartment, optimistic versus pessimistic future aspirations, and individual housing preferen