Urbanie & Urbanus

Issue 2022 Dec

Resilient cities

https://www.doi.org/10.55412/07.08

Issue 7, P.145 - P.156

The Impacts of Environmentally Mitigated River Channelization on Agriculture in Hong Kong

Duan Haihao

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

 and  Xuewen Lu

PhD candidate 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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