Geography case study around Tai Po New Town

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Geography case study around Tai Po New Town

• 4A
• Tsang Kin Chun (29)
• Ng Koon Fung (23)
• Leung Wai Kit (17)
• Kwok Man Han (12)

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Tai Po New Town
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Tai Po New Town Development

• Tai Po population is increasing, So
• government start to development Tai Po to
• be a new town city. But this arrangement
• affect some problems, such as Tai Po has
• only one river, call Lam Tsuen River.
• Because city is developing, then the rubbish
• will throw to the river (this action is very
• convenient) .That affected the animals in the
• river, that will be died by this construction
• rubbish and also destroy the food chain,
• break the ecological environment, etc.

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Introduction of Tai Po

• Tai Po Centre and Tai Po Market (Residential
  Area)
• Introduction
• One objective for new town development was to
  alleviate the problem of congestion in the old
  urban areas of Kowloon and the northern shore of
  Hong Kong Island by decentralizing the population
  to the New Territories. Therefore, residential
  land use is a dominant land use type in new
  towns.
• Tai Po New Town started to be developed in the
  1970s. The population of the new town has
  increased from less than 25,000 to over 260,000
  in less than twenty years. You are going to
  compare the environment of two residential areas.
  Tai Po Centre, which has been developed under the
  New Town Plan, and Tai Po Market, which is an old
  town area developed before Tai Po was designated
  as a new town. Compare the environmental quality
  and features of the two areas and study how town
  planning affects the development of residential
  areas.

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Before the Development of Tai Po New Town
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After the development of the Tai Po new town
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Q A

• Q Which of the two areas, Tai Po Market or Tai
  Po Centre, provides a better living environment?
  Why?
• A We think that Tai Po Centre
• Q Are there any environmental impacts associated
  with the growth of the population of Tai Po New
  Town? What are they?
• A Air pollution is increase
• Q Do you think the overall environmental quality
  of the site is better or getting worse after the
  development of the residential area? Please
  explain why there is a change in environmental
  quality and state possible remedy.
• A Better

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Tai Po New Town QA

• General Appearance
• Choose a building which belongs to the most
  commonly seen style of the area ??? residential
  buildings
• Dirt on the external wall of building??Yes
• Visible drain pipes outside the building???Yes
• Number of storeys of residential buildings ???
  muit-purpose
• Approximate age of residential buildings ??Young
• The distance between this building and its
  nearest neighbor
• Yes

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Facilities

• Shopping place (variety/ convenience/
  cleanliness)
• convenience
• Market place (variety/ convenience/ cleanliness)
• convenience
• Recreational facilities indoor (eg. Library,
  cultural centre)
• Recreational facilities outdoor (eg. Swimming
  pool, parks)
• Schools (facilities and environment)?? facilities

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Transport

• Bus services and bus stop? (frequency/
  accessibility/ safety)
• frequency
• Connection with (MTR/KCE/LRT)
• KCE
• Road safety ? (clear road sign, traffic lights)
• Yes
• Traffic flow (more/less)
• less
• Car-parking space
• Enough
• Have you spotted any illegal parking?no

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Environmental Quality

• Green area??Many Green Area
• Cleanness of road (Littering/ rubbish bins/
  recycling bins)
• rubbish bins
• Is there any open drainage?NO

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Introduction of Tolo Harbour
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Background of Tolo Harbour

• Rarely recorded in HK prior to1970. red tides
  have accurred frequently especially in sheltered
  and eutrophic areas such Tolo Harbour .There were
  25 instances of red tides reported in1996,of
  which 52 were recorded from Tolo Harbour.

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QA about the Tolo Harbour

• Are there any plants along the seashore? None
• Are there any animals in the sea ? Some
• Is there any observable river leading point ??
  YES
• Three possible Pollution sources in Tolo Harbour
• -- domectic water discharge.
• -- people throw the rubbish into the river.
• -- sewage come from mainland
• Does marine pollution affect the lives of people
  and wildlife?
• Yes. Bad water quality cause red tide ,it may
  cause may fishes die. People revenue will be
  decrease which they are fishing. The view become
  bad, The tourism will be affect.

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QA 2 about the Tolo Harbour

• Suggest remedial measures to improve marine
  water quality?
• Set up a sewage control department to controlled
  the marine pollution.
• Promote to the people how to protect the ocean
• Is the Tolo Harbour action plan the best
  solution to solve the marine pollution problem?
  Why?
• NO.It can not solve the big problem about the
  Tolo harbour.It was because this Plan effect is
  not so big,but the Plan cost expensive.

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Introduction of Lam tsuen river
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Background of Lam Tsuen river pollution

• As part of the new town development the lower
  course of the reclamation work .The mangrove
  habitat formerly located at lam tsuen river
  estuary was removed in the early 1979 .Drainage
  work has been done in the urban areas to reduce
  the risk of flooding.

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Lam Tsuen River s feeling

• After visiting Lam Tsuen River ,we found that Lam
  Tsuen River is very dirty, we look down to the
  river, we found that there is just a little fish
  there, but compare with Sing Mum River , Lam
  Tsuen River just have a few fishes,also Lam Tsuen
  Rivers water quality is bad too, there has some
  eutrophication over there ,and the smell is very
  bad ,also it attract housefly ,the conclusion of
  our group is Lam Tsuen River is very dirty and
  its no suitable for residential buildings build
  up near by.

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Introduction of ting kok mangrove
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Background of ting kok mangrove

• Ting kok mangrove was designated as a site of
  special scientific interest (sssi) in
  March1985.the designated site covers an area of
  about 37.5 ha . Five species of mangrove can be
  found there.

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Think about the Ting Kok mangrove

• What is the mangrove forest?
• The mangrove forest is the tropics to the
  subtropics area, river mouth region main coast
  natural phenomenon, may in some soft be moist
  also the full cloth mud "the wetland" on finds,
  is one of resources richest most and populous
  ecosystem. The mangrove forest is refers to the
  growth to fall on tropics area by in the land
  surrounding bay flora, mainly is mangrove branch
  of plant, but also has other growths in the moist
  gorge belt tall this and the brush plant. The
  mangrove forest is one kind of evergreen plant,
  middle including many not classmates plant, but
  has the similar physiological structure and the
  characteristic, adapts the coast GAO Yanfen
  habitat.
• In Tai po, there have a farmland land near the
  mangrove and the water is clear.

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Background of mangrove

• Mangrove forest distribution.
• The mangrove belongs to the tropical plants, in
  places such as Southeast Asia and Malaysia
  extremely universal, mainly distributes in the
  tropics area, in River Mouth bay especially is
  easy to see, also has the minority growth in the
  subtropics area. The growth scope mainly "the
  temperature" this important attribute, majority
  of 20C the uniform temperature line (isotherm)
  between is being recorded in the Earth, and
  middle also has some cold resistant better tree
  seeds. Other growth areas including tide and
  ocean waves weaker bay, small sand of alluvium as
  well as tidal zone broad seacoast.

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How to protect the mangrove forest?

• Set up the severe measure
• Organize inspection group
• Set up the teaching center to promote the method
  of protect the mangrove
• Government can support money for the environment
  department to do some action protect the
  mangrove
• Government can open some complain hot-line when
  people see other destroy the mangrove or
  environment.

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Introduction of Tai Po industry estates
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Introduction of Tai Po industry estates

• Besides alleviating the problem of population
  congestion in existing
• urban areas, another main objective of new town
  development was to
• provide new areas for industrial development. As
  a result, although
• residential land use is a dominant land use type
  in the new towns, the
• new towns provide over 40 of the industrial land
  in Hong Kong.
• Tai Po Industrial Estate, which covers an area of
  73 ha, is one of the
• three government planned industrial estates in
  Hong Kong. The other
• two industrial estates are located at Yuen Long
  and Tseung Kwan O. In
• contrast to other industrial areas, the
  industrial estates are developed
• to provide for those industries with new or
  improved technologies which
• cannot operate in existing multi-storey factory
  buildings.

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QA about Tai Po industry estates

• Q What are the major differences between the Tai
  Po Industrial Estate and the older industrial
  areas like Kwun Tong or Kwai Chung? Why is there
  a difference in environmental quality?
• A Because of Kwun Tong is industrial estate, so
  that there is there a difference in environmental
  quality
• Q How can the environmental friendliness of an
  industrial area be improved?
• A Government can provide more land to solve this
  problem
• Q Is a plan for development important for
  building a better working and living environment?
• A Yes

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General Appearance

• Dirt on the external wall of building??NO
• Visible drain pipes outside the building??NO
• Number of storeys of residential
  buildings??muit-purpose
• Approximate age of residential buildings??Old
• The distance between this building and its
  nearest neighbor??NO
• Please list three most dominant types of
  industry?? HIGH technology

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Facilities

• Shopping place (variety/ convenience/
  cleanliness)
• convenience
• Market place (variety/ convenience/ cleanliness)
• convenience
• Recreational facilities indoor (eg. Library,
  cultural centre)
• Recreational facilities outdoor (eg. Swimming
  pool, parks)
• Schools (facilities and environment)

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Transport

• Bus services and bus stop (frequency/
  accessibility/ safety)
• frequency
• Connection with MTR/KCE/LRT
• KCE
• Road safety (clear road sign, traffic lights)
• Safety
• Traffic flow
• NO
• Car-parking space
• Enough
• Have you spotted any illegal parking?
• NO

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Environmental Quality

• Green area
• Much
• Cleanness of road (Littering/ rubbish bins/
  recycling bins)
• recycling bins
• Is there any open drainage?Yes

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By observing Tai Po Trip

• What kinds of land use can be found????
• Farmland, residential buildings, etc
• What are the functions for different land use??
• Let people live there and working
• What are the characteristics for different land
  use???
• The characteristics is people can
  self-sufficiency