Building colonial Hong Kong : speculative development and segregation in the city / Cecilia L. Chu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chu, Cecilia L., author.

Series:

Planning, history, and the environment series

Planning, history and environment series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--China--Hong Kong--Case studies.

City planning.

Urban renewal--China--Hong Kong--Case studies.

Urban renewal.

Land speculation--China--Hong Kong--Case studies.

Land speculation.

China--Hong Kong.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Chu, Cecilia L. Building colonial Hong Kong

ISBN:

9781138344655

1138344656

9781032262925

1032262923

OCLC:

1285915881