Urbanie & Urbanus

Issue 2025 Sep

Gazing at the City: Reflections on Our Urban Present

https://www.doi.org/10.55412/12.01

Issue 12, P. - P.

Morphological Characteristics of Rural Settlement in Rapidly Urbanising Regions: A Comparative Study of Existing Villages in the New Territories, Hong Kong

Xuze Wang

Master graduate in Urban Design and Regional Planning at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong

and Gianni Talamini

Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong

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Figures

Figure 1. Distribution of pre-1898 villages, post-1898 villages and composite villages in the New Territories, 2023.

Figure 2. Location map of study cases of landscape transformation analysis.

Figure 3. Spatial distribution (density) of pre-1898 villages, post-1898 villages and composite villages in the New Territories, 2023.

Figure 4. District-related spatial characteristics of pre-1898 villages, post-1898 villages and composite villages in the New Territories, 2023.

Figure 5. Rural settlement spatial characteristics in different districts in the New Territories, 2023.

Figure 6. Rural settlement landscape transformation patterns in 1945-2023 (a) pre-1898 village (i.e., Sheung Shui Heung), (b) post-1898 village (i.e., Tong Yan San Tsuen (II)) and (c) composite village (i.e., Wu Kai Sha and Cheung Kang).

Figure 7 . Land proportion of pre-1898 village (i.e., Sheung Shui Heung), post-1898 village (i.e., Tong Yan San Tsuen (II)) and composite village (i.e., Wu Kai Sha and Cheung Kang), 1945-2023.

Table 1. The index of spatial metrics.

Table 2. Categorisation of rural settlement landscapes.