Verfasst von:	Chu, Cecilia L. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Building colonial Hong Kong
Titelzusatz:	speculative development and segregation in the city
Verf.angabe:	Cecilia L. Chu
Verlagsort:	London ; New York
Verlag:	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Jahr:	2022
Umfang:	xii, 228 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen, Pläne
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Planning, history and environment series
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis Seite 209-219
ISBN:	978-1-138-34465-5
	978-1-032-26292-5
Abstract:	"In this engaging and extensively illustrated book, Cecilia L. Chu retells the 'Hong Kong story' by tracing the emergence of its 'speculative landscape' from the late nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. Through a number of pivotal case studies, she highlights the contradictory logic of colonial urban development: the encouragement of native investment that supported a laissez-faire housing market, versus the imperative to segregate the populations in a hierarchical, colonial spatial order. Crucially, she shows that the production of Hong Kong's urban landscapes was not a top-down process, but one that evolved through ongoing negotiations between different constituencies with vested interests in property. Further, her study reveals that the built environment was key to generating and attaining individual and collective aspirations in a racially divided, highly unequal, but nevertheless upwardly mobile, modernizing colonial city"--
Schlagwörter:	(g)Hongkong    / (s)Städtebau    / (s)Stadtplanung    / (s)Stadtumbau    / (s)Bodenspekulation
Dokumenttyp:	Hochschulschrift
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Chu, Cecilia L: Building colonial Hong Kong. - New York : Routledge, 2022 |(DLC)2021056626
	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Chu, Cecilia L.: Building colonial Hong Kong. - Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge,, 2022. - 1 online resource.
K10plus-PPN:	1783421282