EVALUATING SERVICE FUNCTIONS OF URBAN GREEN SPACE: A CASE STUDY IN KOWLOON, HONG KONG

Nowadays, urban green space plays an important role in providing service functions for residents from the adjacent neighborhoods. Especially under the hyper-dense circumstances in Hong Kong, urban green space offers multiple functions for citizens, such as evacuation functions, traffic carrying capacity, and entertainment functions. This paper aims to evaluate the urban green space functions by using evaluating indicators for the neighborhood parks, and by analyzing data with ArcGIS 10 in order to obtain accurate data and evaluation results. This is achieved by analyzing the influencing factors for improving the service functions of urban green space, in order to provide technical and data support for planners and governments in elaborating and making full use of the urban green space service functions in the coming years