{"id":919,"date":"2015-05-07T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T04:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/?page_id=919"},"modified":"2015-08-17T13:34:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T05:34:15","slug":"community-governance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/discussed-issues\/community-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Community &#038; Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1429 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/9-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"9\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/9-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/9-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cEvery country has the government they deserve\u201d (J. de Maistre).\u00a0 Sustainable futures are only possible with effective, relevant and responsive government: \u201cof the people and by the people.\u201d\u00a0 As we identify ourselves within communities we need to develop forms of self-governance that respond to the long term needs, i.e. to maintain a balanced and equitable society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately, governments (both political and corporate) are still very much underpinned by the interests of the few, and are seldom representative of the many.\u00a0 The effects of high levels of control and centralization of decision making was highlighted in the case study comparing Ocean Park and HK Disney theme parks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Big government has power but lacks flexibility and sensitivity to local issues.\u00a0 Top down bureaucratic approaches tend to be of the \u2018one size fits nobody\u2019 variety.\u00a0\u00a0 By contrast individuals feel impotent to change anything.\u00a0\u00a0 Sustainable futures cannot be achieved by wholesale, mass responses.\u00a0 They require site specificity and particularity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a potential solution, however, in the community itself, from the bottom up.\u00a0\u00a0 The actions of many individuals,\u00a0 when added together, can have tremendous power to effect change at both local and territorial scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEvery country has the government they deserve\u201d (J. de Maistre).\u00a0 Sustainable futures are only possible with effective, relevant and responsive government: \u201cof the people and by the people.\u201d\u00a0 As we identify ourselves within communities we need to develop forms of self-governance that respond to the long term needs, i.e. to maintain a balanced and equitable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":986,"parent":1375,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/919\/revisions\/1459"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}