This model shows the Green Island project
which will house 30,000 people.
BOLD DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR MACAO
BOLD PLANS for the develop
development of Macao, based on the reclamations of the outer port and the Praia Grande, have been drawn up on the basis of a town planning scheme made by Mr. Leopoldo de Almeida for Macao Government.
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Basically the plans involve the construction of a rehousing area on Green Island, where modern econo mic housing in blocks of flats will be built for about 30,000 people. most of whom are at present living in mat sheds and other temporary housing on the area of the Outer Port reclamations on which it is proposed to construct a large modern housing development and a tourist and sports centre.
Ancillary to this broad plan and hand-in-hand with it will come in- dustrial development in a zone set aside, improvements in communica- tions and in sewerage, and in pre- serving green belts in order to keep the basic characteristics of Macao
while bringing the province more into keeping with modern condi
tions.
The Green Island scheme, which will cost about HK$60.000,000, will be carried out over a period of about six years with financial help from private, national and foreign addition to loans from the Government of Portugal.
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In this scheme 30,000 people will be accommodated in 6,145 housing units with a total floor area of 2,300,000 square feet on a building area of 706,000 square feet, or 30.7 per cent of the area set aside for the scheme.
Roads will take up 313 per cent of the area and there will be a green belt of 35 per cent of the area.
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In addition to the blocks of cheap housing to be erected here, all the amenities for the life of a munity creches, homes for the poor, schools, social services, shops and premises for cultural and re-
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All the land in the Outer Port re clamation area where the main de- velopment plan is to be carried out belongs to the Government and this factor will determine the type of construction in the urban organisa- tion of the area.
Because of the nature of the sub- soil and in order to keep the new development in keeping with the ex- isting town of Macao construction of high blocks will be permitted only along the strip situated at the foot of Guia Hill.
For the rest of the purely hous- ing development three to six storey blocks will be built, giving a density of some 120 people to the acre.
It is estimated that an urban area of some 20,000 people will come into being here, a size that will render possible the provision at an econo. mical figure of all the amenities needed for such a complex.
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