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Lok Fu (Chinese:樂富;Cantonese Yale:Lohk Fu) is a place inWong Tai Sin District,Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is located to the east ofKowloon Tsai, the west ofWong Tai Sin and the north ofKowloon City.It geographically includes nearbyWang Tau Hom.[citation needed]
The only village in this area in the 19th century was Ta Ku Ling or Ta Kwu Ling (Chinese:打鼓嶺), not to be confused with the other two villages of the same name in Hong Kong (Ta Ku Ling in Sai Kung district andTa Kwu Ling in North district). It is recorded onan 1866 map and was part of an alliance of seven nearby villages led byNga Tsin Wai Tsuen.[1] It was located whereMorse Park is now.
In the 1940s many refugees arrived in the area, which was then known asLo Fu Ngam (Chinese:老虎岩;Cantonese Yale:Lóuh Fú Ngàahm, literally "Tiger's Den" inChinese). There were many squatter huts on the hillsides.[2] After the construction of thepublic housing estate started in 1957 with the firstresettlement blocks being built, Lo Fu Ngam was renamed asLok Fu which literally means "Happiness and Wealth" in Chinese.[3][4][5] All the housing estates were rebuilt in the 1980s and 1990s. Wang Tau Hom complex (now Lok Fu Place), built in 1985, was designed by the architects Alan Fitch (architect ofHong Kong City Hall) & W.N. Chung (architect of the 1971 (now replaced)Peak Tower).[6]
The centre of Lok Fu contains the Lok Fu Place shopping centre. The shopping mall was renovated in 2008-9[7] while the market was renovated in 2013.[8] The anchor tenant of the shopping mall is the Japanese department storeUny.[9]
Besides the shopping mall, Lok Fu primarily consists of public housing estates:
The Lok Fu area has many parks:
Other places of interest in Lok Fu include:
Lok Fu is served byLok Fu station on the MTR'sKwun Tong line.
Junction Road passes through Lok Fu.
Lok Fu is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 43. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and Wong Tai Sin Government Primary School.[12]
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Official place names are summarized from "Geoinfo Map" of Government ofHong Kong Special Administrative Region, "Hong Kong Guide" ofLands Department, "Hong Kong Guide Book" of Universal Publications Ltd. and "Areas and Districts" ofRating and Valuation Department. M：Narrow meaning of urban areas KL:Kowloon Peninsula at the south ofBoundary Street NKL: Former New Territories area at the north of Boundary Street and at the south ofLion Rock 1: Common definition (1) 2: Common definition (2) 3: Common definition (3) 4: Areas not adopting small house concessionary right ofindigenous inhabitants 5: Jurisdiction area of formerUrban Council 6: Definition of "Metropolitan Area" ofPlanning Department 7: Jurisdiction area ofUrban Renewal Authority 8: Unique operating area ofurban taxis 9: "Urban" (9a) and "Extended Urban" (9b) areas defined byHong Kong Housing Authority 10: Definition of Urbanrates 11: Hospital cluster belongs to Hong Kong or Kowloon 12: Police region belongs to Hong Kong or Kowloon 13: Regions having 999-year land lease 14:Geographical Constituency inHong Kong Legislative Council belongs to Hong Kong or Kowloon 15:Regional Education Office belongs to Hong Kong or Kowloon 16:Primary One Admission School Net belongs to Hong Kong or Kowloon | |||||||||||