Y Yau
Biographic Data
| ID | 34751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y Yau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Yau |
| SIGNATURE | YAU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6416-8556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Pandemic under roofs: The untold story of resilience in Hong Kong's sub-divided units
Resilience resistance of super-aged communities: Insights from the Covid-19 pandemic experience
Urban village redevelopment in China: Conflict formation and management from a neo-institutional economics perspective
On the assessment of social value of heritage places in Hong Kong
Hong Kong adopted the practice of assessing social value of heritage sites in the late 1990s or early 2000s, which by then had been widely incorporated by other places around the world, in line with the Burra Charter of 1979. However, social value appraisals in Hong Kong continue to be inadequate, due in part to a lack of understanding of this complex notion and how it works. Similar challenges have also been observed in other places, as attested…
Revisiting the Concept of the Property State: Private Landowners and Suburban Development in Hong Kong
Under the prevailing land-leasehold system, the Hong Kong government is thought to be the dominant supplier of land for housing development and for economic transformation. These characteristics make Hong Kong a "property state," to use a concept developed by Anne Haila. However, the protection of private property rights has long been a core value in the city. As a result, private developers and investors have endeavored to build up their own lan…
Direct and Indirect Impacts of Housing Tenure Mix on Antisocial Behavior: A Study of Hong Kong’s Private Housing Communities
The problem of antisocial behavior (ASB) undermines the life quality of urban residents. While many previous studies on ASB focused on the solutions, little effort has been dedicated to finding out the social determinants of the levels of ASB problems in private housing communities, especially in high-rise residential settings in Asian cities. Previous empirical research suggests that ASB seriousness can be a function of poor neighborliness, comm…
A Framework for Understanding the Institutional Arrangements of Urban Village Redevelopment Projects in China
Large-scale urban village redevelopment projects (UVRPs) have been implemented in different ways in China in recent years. This study develops an analytical framework for understanding the heterogeneity of institutional arrangements for UVRPs in China. The analytical framework is established from the perspective of neo-institutional economics. Decision-making and funding sources are used as two dimensions to classify the institutional arrangement…
Urban Entrepreneurialism Vs Market Society: The Geography of China's Neoliberal Urbanism
Existing literature on China's neoliberal urbanism is preoccupied with its institutional incentives and political-economy dynamics, which are characterized by state dominance through sponsorship and supervision of capital-market operations that drive pro-growth aspirations and gentrification strategies. Meanwhile, society, confronted with brutal neoliberal production of urban space, is vulnerable to dispossession and displacement. In this article…
H ong K ong
Since its changeover from a British colony to a special administrative region of China in 1997, Hong Kong has experienced great changes in political, economic, and social terms. Heavy blows from the global economic downturns and a widespread local epidemic weakened the economic pillars. At the same time, the role of financial hub has been threatened by competitors like Singapore and Shanghai. The democratization of Hong Kong has resulted in a pol…
Efficacy beliefs, sense of unfairness, and participation in Lulu activism
Proučevanje političnih možnosti za boj proti nezakonitim mikrostanovanjem v Hongkongu
Nezakonita gradnja ima več oblik, vključno z ilegalnimi naselji (ang. squatter settlements) in nezakonitimi prizidki stavb. Med različnimi oblikami nezakonite gradnje so v zadnjem času precejšnjo pozornost širše javnosti v Hongkongu pritegnila nezakonita mikrostanovanja, ki nastanejo z nezakonito razdelitvijo stanovanj. Zaradi svoje nezakonite narave tovrstna stanovanja resno ogrožajo varnost prebivalcev, saj zmanjšujejo konstrukcijsko stabilnost…
Exploring policy options to combat illegal microapartments in Hong Kong
Illegal building can take multiple forms, including squatter settlements and illegal building extensions. Among the various forms of illegal building, illegal microapartments (IMAs), which take the form of unauthorised subdivided housing units, have recently aroused wide public concern in Hong Kong. On account of their unlawful nature, IMAs pose serious threats to the safety of local communities by undermining structural stability and fire safety…
Urbani prostor postsocialističnih mest, neformalnih naselij in degradiranih območij v času podnebnih sprememb
Urbani prostor postsocialističnih
The value of building safety: A hedonic price approach
V literaturi so na voljo številne teoretične in empirične raziskave vrednotenja učinkovitosti stavb na nepremičninskem trgu. Nekatere od njih preučujejo spremembe v cenah nepremičnin po njihovi obnovi, le malo pa se jih ukvarja z določanjem cen stavb na podlagi njihove varnosti. V članku je predstavljena raziskava, ki preučuje, ali stanovanja v varnejših stavbah v Hongkongu dosegajo višje tržne vrednosti. Za tovrstno raziskavo je Hongkong kar dob…
The value of building safety: A hedonic price approach
Theoretical and empirical studies on how building performance is valued by the property market abound in the literature. Some of them investigate changes in property prices after building renovation, but little has been done on pricing the safety performance of buildings. This article presents a study that explores whether residential properties in safer buildings command higher market values in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a good laboratory for this …
The urban space of post-communist cities, informal settlements and brownfields during climate change
The urban space of post-communist cities, informal settlements and brownfields during climate change This issue of Urbani izziv presents urban space from the perspective of alternative landscape futures, public transport networks, housing aspirations in informal urban settlements and the regeneration of urban brownfields. The articles expand on the specific findings of authors published in previous issues of the journal. To this end, a critical c…
Combating building illegality in Hong Kong: A policy Delphi study
Economising subsidies for green housing features: A stated preference approach
In light of the enormous amounts of energy and resources consumed by housing development and operations, many governments have started recognising the urgent need to promote green or eco-friendly housing with the aim of achieving sustainable development. Apart from regulations, governments can offer incentives to developers to provide green features in their developments by offering subsidies in various forms. However, such subsidisation is often…
Economising subsidies for green housing features: A stated preference approach
In light of the enormous amounts of energy and resources consumed by housing development and operations, many governments have started recognising the urgent need to promote green or eco-friendly housing with the aim of achieving sustainable development. Apart from regulations, governments can offer incentives to developers to provide green features in their developments by offering subsidies in various forms. However, such subsidisation is often…
Perceived efficacies and collectivism in multi-owned housing management
Anti-social behaviour management: A communitarian approach
Institutional inadequacies and successful contentions: A case study of the Lulu siting process in Hong Kong
The Economics of the Right to Keep a Dog
Dog guardianship has gained popularity in many cities as a result of animal domestication. In spite of its benefits, dog guardianship in high-density urban housing creates certain problems, including increased health risks. Conflicts between different interested parties over the right to keep dogs have therefore surfaced. In Hong Kong, a lawsuit was initiated by a resident in a private housing estate, Mei Foo Sun Chuen, to overturn dog bans impos…
Social sustainability in urban renewal: An assessment of community aspirations
The lack of a proper building care culture has led to serious problems of urban decay in most developed cities, threatening community health and safety. To arrest urban decay, redevelopment is a commonly adopted approach for regenerating rundown areas. Redevelopment often results in negative outcomes such as disturbances to existing social networks and burgeoning construction and demolition waste. On the other hand, building rehabilitation is a m…
Nepomembno ali prezrto? Protisocialno vedenje v zasebnih stanovanjih v Hongkongu
Zaradi vse večjih nevšečnosti, ki jih na stanovanjskem področju povzročajo protisocialno vedenje (ang. antisocial behaviour, v nadaljevanju: ASB) in problemi v soseski, mnoge zahodnjaške vlade v svojih programih stanovanjske politike namenjajo nadzorovanju ASB osrednje mesto. Vendar je za spopadanje z ASB pogosto potrebno veliko političnih ukrepov. Čeprav se ASB in njegovemu nadzoru namenja veliko znanstvene pozornosti, je bil do zdaj glavni poud…
Urban Entrepreneurialism Vs Market Society: The Geography of China's Neoliberal Urbanism
Existing literature on China's neoliberal urbanism is preoccupied with its institutional incentives and political-economy dynamics, which are characterized by state dominance through sponsorship and supervision of capital-market operations that drive pro-growth aspirations and gentrification strategies. Meanwhile, society, confronted with brutal neoliberal production of urban space, is vulnerable to dispossession and displacement. In this article…
Collectivism and activism in housing management in Hong Kong
Property price gradients: The vertical dimension
This is an empirical study on the pricing of two vertical property attributes: floor level and building height. Floor level is the vertical location of a unit in a multi-storey building; the extra price paid for a higher floor level is labelled a floor-level premium. Previous hedonic price studies unequivocally showed that the floor-level premium is positive, but they were silent on whether its magnitude varies with floor levels and with building…
Willingness to Participate in Collective Action: The Case of Multiowned Housing Management
Ownership fragmentation in multiowned housing (MOH) necessitates collective actions from homeowners for management and maintenance of the communal facilities. Yet, rationality dissuades individuals from participating in collective action which provides no positive net benefit. Rational homeowners in MOH tend to free-ride on others' efforts and, in theory, no collective action in housing management will take place. In fact, however, some homeowner…
Determinants of the Safety Performance of Private Multi-storey Residential Buildings in Hong Kong
A Framework for Understanding the Institutional Arrangements of Urban Village Redevelopment Projects in China
Large-scale urban village redevelopment projects (UVRPs) have been implemented in different ways in China in recent years. This study develops an analytical framework for understanding the heterogeneity of institutional arrangements for UVRPs in China. The analytical framework is established from the perspective of neo-institutional economics. Decision-making and funding sources are used as two dimensions to classify the institutional arrangement…
Institutional inadequacies and successful contentions: A case study of the Lulu siting process in Hong Kong
Perceived efficacies and collectivism in multi-owned housing management
Determining Optimal Building Height
The paper examines how building height is determined in the absence of building height regulatory restrictions. A model is developed for determining optimal height using simple neo-classical economic analysis; this is then tested using empirical data from Hong Kong. The results show that the observed building heights are consistent with the optimal height predicted by the model. In addition, it was also found that the point of optimality varied p…
Social Impacts of the Marking Scheme in Public Housing in Hong Kong
Revisiting the Concept of the Property State: Private Landowners and Suburban Development in Hong Kong
Under the prevailing land-leasehold system, the Hong Kong government is thought to be the dominant supplier of land for housing development and for economic transformation. These characteristics make Hong Kong a "property state," to use a concept developed by Anne Haila. However, the protection of private property rights has long been a core value in the city. As a result, private developers and investors have endeavored to build up their own lan…
On the Anti-social Behaviour Control in Hong Kong's Public Housing
In 2003, the Housing Department launched a marking scheme which aimed to improve environmental hygiene in public housing estates in Hong Kong. Although the scheme can potentially stop anti-social behaviour and other misconduct in public housing estates, the choice of public housing tenants as the sole target of control has not been clearly explained. Therefore, this study attempts to justify this administration-driven marking scheme. It appears t…
Anti-social behaviour management: A communitarian approach
Stakeholder engagement in waste recycling in a high‐rise setting
The efficacy of waste recycling is closely associated with the environmental sustainability of a city. However, just like many other environmental protection initiatives, waste recycling requires stakeholder engagement to succeed. Exploring determinants of waste recycling behaviour helps policy‐makers to formulate schemes to promote recycling effectively. While most literature has studied the factors affecting waste recycling in low‐rise low‐dens…
Urban village redevelopment in China: Conflict formation and management from a neo-institutional economics perspective
Efficacy beliefs, sense of unfairness, and participation in Lulu activism
The Economics of the Right to Keep a Dog
Dog guardianship has gained popularity in many cities as a result of animal domestication. In spite of its benefits, dog guardianship in high-density urban housing creates certain problems, including increased health risks. Conflicts between different interested parties over the right to keep dogs have therefore surfaced. In Hong Kong, a lawsuit was initiated by a resident in a private housing estate, Mei Foo Sun Chuen, to overturn dog bans impos…
Ruling out trouble: Unacceptable behaviour and its control in Hong Kong’s public housing
Determining Optimal Building Height
The paper examines how building height is determined in the absence of building height regulatory restrictions. A model is developed for determining optimal height using simple neo-classical economic analysis; this is then tested using empirical data from Hong Kong. The results show that the observed building heights are consistent with the optimal height predicted by the model. In addition, it was also found that the point of optimality varied p…
Determinants of the Safety Performance of Private Multi-storey Residential Buildings in Hong Kong
Raziskava o sprejemljivosti komasacije za urbano prenovo v Hongkongu
A study on the acceptability of land readjustment for urban regeneration in Hong Kong
In view of the ever-increasing problem of urban decay in Hong Kong, the authorities have paid huge efforts in renewing the city. Yet, redevelopments are often delayed owing to the thorny and lengthy exercises of land assembly. While compulsory purchase or eminent domain helps to speed up the land assembly process, this approach has been criticized for creating social tensions between the redevelopment agents and those affected homeowners. Other t…
Sense of community and homeowner participation in housing management: A study of Hong Kong
Lack of homeowner participation in housing management (free riding) has rendered the management of many apartment buildings in Hong Kong ineffective. Proper apartment-building management depends on the voluntary contributions of individual homeowners. Individual homeowners are likely to free-ride on the management efforts of others because they consider the benefits of good housing management to be common goods. Apart from incentives such as subs…
Občutek pripadnosti skupnosti in sodelovanje lastnikov pri upravljanju večstanovanjskih stavb: Raziskava v Hongkongu
Zaradi nezadostnega sodelovanja lastnikov pri upravljanju večstanovanjskih stavb upravljanje mnogih stanovanjskih zgradb v Hongkongu ni učinkovito. Ustrezno upravljanje stanovanjskih blokov je namreč odvisno od prostovoljnih prizadevanj posameznih lastnikov. Ti pogosto izkoriščajo upravljavske napore drugih, saj koristi dobrega upravljanja stavb pojmujejo kot skupno dobro. Poleg spodbud, kot so subvencije, ki jih ponujajo državni organi, in strož…
Property price gradients: The vertical dimension
This is an empirical study on the pricing of two vertical property attributes: floor level and building height. Floor level is the vertical location of a unit in a multi-storey building; the extra price paid for a higher floor level is labelled a floor-level premium. Previous hedonic price studies unequivocally showed that the floor-level premium is positive, but they were silent on whether its magnitude varies with floor levels and with building…
Stakeholder engagement in waste recycling in a high‐rise setting
The efficacy of waste recycling is closely associated with the environmental sustainability of a city. However, just like many other environmental protection initiatives, waste recycling requires stakeholder engagement to succeed. Exploring determinants of waste recycling behaviour helps policy‐makers to formulate schemes to promote recycling effectively. While most literature has studied the factors affecting waste recycling in low‐rise low‐dens…
Ali celovita sanacija vpliva na spremembo cen stanovanj? Študija primera v predelu Mongkok v Hongkongu
Does comprehensive redevelopment change the housing price gradient? A case study in Mongkok, Hong Kong
Urban decay is an inevitable outcome of the growth of most cities, including Hong Kong. Many old buildings in Hong Kong are dilapidated, and it is urgent to tackle urban decay in the city. Redeveloping dilapidated buildings has long been regarded as an effective solution to this urban problem. Yet, as suggested in the literature, redevelopment may be responsible for gentrifying neighbourhoods because it pushes up property and rental prices near r…
On the Anti-social Behaviour Control in Hong Kong's Public Housing
In 2003, the Housing Department launched a marking scheme which aimed to improve environmental hygiene in public housing estates in Hong Kong. Although the scheme can potentially stop anti-social behaviour and other misconduct in public housing estates, the choice of public housing tenants as the sole target of control has not been clearly explained. Therefore, this study attempts to justify this administration-driven marking scheme. It appears t…
Collectivism and activism in housing management in Hong Kong
Social sustainability in urban renewal: An assessment of community aspirations
The lack of a proper building care culture has led to serious problems of urban decay in most developed cities, threatening community health and safety. To arrest urban decay, redevelopment is a commonly adopted approach for regenerating rundown areas. Redevelopment often results in negative outcomes such as disturbances to existing social networks and burgeoning construction and demolition waste. On the other hand, building rehabilitation is a m…
Nepomembno ali prezrto? Protisocialno vedenje v zasebnih stanovanjih v Hongkongu
Zaradi vse večjih nevšečnosti, ki jih na stanovanjskem področju povzročajo protisocialno vedenje (ang. antisocial behaviour, v nadaljevanju: ASB) in problemi v soseski, mnoge zahodnjaške vlade v svojih programih stanovanjske politike namenjajo nadzorovanju ASB osrednje mesto. Vendar je za spopadanje z ASB pogosto potrebno veliko političnih ukrepov. Čeprav se ASB in njegovemu nadzoru namenja veliko znanstvene pozornosti, je bil do zdaj glavni poud…
Insignificant or ignored? Antisocial behaviour in private housing in Hong Kong
Because of aggravating antisocial behaviour (ASB) or the 7neighbourhood problem in housing, many western governments have given ASB control a central place in their policy agendas. However, tackling ASB often involves a great deal of politics. Although ASB and controlling it have attracted much scholarly attention, the focus has almost always been placed on social housing. It is unclear whether this problem does not exist in other types of housin…
Socialna zdržnost pri urbani prenovi: Ocena želja skupnosti
Pomanjkanje prave kulture skrbi za stavbe je v večini razvitih mest pripeljalo do resnih težav zaradi propadanja mestnih predelov, in to ogroža zdravje in varnost mestnih skupnosti. Sanacija je pristop, s katerim navadno ustavimo propadanje in obnovimo propadajoča območja. Pogosto pa ima tudi negativne posledice; zmoti lahko delovanje obstoječih socialnih mrež in pretirano poveča količino odpadkov, ki nastanejo pri gradnji in rušenju zgradb. Po d…
Homeowner Involvement, Land Readjustment, and Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Hong Kong
In view of the ever-growing problem of urban decay in Hong Kong, there is an urgent need for redeveloping derelict buildings. To overcome the inherent tribulations of redevelopment in the city, the technique of land readjustment (LR) has been proposed. LR is, by its nature, a kind of partnering project but its success depends on the homeowners' willingness to participate. This study aims to explore the acceptability of LR in Hong Kong through the…
Willingness to Participate in Collective Action: The Case of Multiowned Housing Management
Ownership fragmentation in multiowned housing (MOH) necessitates collective actions from homeowners for management and maintenance of the communal facilities. Yet, rationality dissuades individuals from participating in collective action which provides no positive net benefit. Rational homeowners in MOH tend to free-ride on others' efforts and, in theory, no collective action in housing management will take place. In fact, however, some homeowner…
Ruling out trouble: Unacceptable behaviour and its control in Hong Kong’s public housing
Social Impacts of the Marking Scheme in Public Housing in Hong Kong
The Economics of the Right to Keep a Dog
Dog guardianship has gained popularity in many cities as a result of animal domestication. In spite of its benefits, dog guardianship in high-density urban housing creates certain problems, including increased health risks. Conflicts between different interested parties over the right to keep dogs have therefore surfaced. In Hong Kong, a lawsuit was initiated by a resident in a private housing estate, Mei Foo Sun Chuen, to overturn dog bans impos…
Economising subsidies for green housing features: A stated preference approach
In light of the enormous amounts of energy and resources consumed by housing development and operations, many governments have started recognising the urgent need to promote green or eco-friendly housing with the aim of achieving sustainable development. Apart from regulations, governments can offer incentives to developers to provide green features in their developments by offering subsidies in various forms. However, such subsidisation is often…
Economising subsidies for green housing features: A stated preference approach
In light of the enormous amounts of energy and resources consumed by housing development and operations, many governments have started recognising the urgent need to promote green or eco-friendly housing with the aim of achieving sustainable development. Apart from regulations, governments can offer incentives to developers to provide green features in their developments by offering subsidies in various forms. However, such subsidisation is often…
Perceived efficacies and collectivism in multi-owned housing management
Anti-social behaviour management: A communitarian approach
Political science (28 works) · Economics (24 works) · Business (21 works) · Geography (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Environmental planning (10 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Politics (9 works)