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TY - JFULL AU - Yuan Zhang PY - 2017/7/ TI - Analysis on Urban Form and Evolution Mechanism of High-Density City: Case Study of Hong Kong T2 - International Journal of Urban and Civil Engineering SP - 782 EP - 789 VL - 11 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10007424 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 126, 2017 N2 - Along with large population and great demands for urban development, Hong Kong serves as a typical high-density city with multiple altitudes, advanced three-dimensional traffic system, rich city open space, etc. This paper contributes to analyzing its complex urban form and evolution mechanism from three aspects of view, separately as time, space and buildings. Taking both horizontal and vertical dimension into consideration, this paper provides a perspective to explore the fascinating process of growing and space folding in the urban form of high-density city, also as a research reference for related high-density urban design. ER -