Asian urbanization : a Hong Kong casebook / Editor: D. J. Dwyer. Contributors: P. Bishop [and others.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dwyer, D. J. (Denis John)

Bishop, Peter, 1927-

University of Hong Kong. Centre of Asian Studies.

Series:

Centre of Asian Studies series ; no. 3.

Centre of Asian Studies series ; no. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--China--Hong Kong.

Urbanization.

Urban renewal--China--Hong Kong.

Urban renewal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong] : Hong Kong University Press, [1973]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Journal of Oriental Studies is published twice yearly, in January and July, by the Hong Kong University Press. All manuscripts, books for review, and editorial communications should be submitted to the Editor, Journal of Oriental Studies, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Hong Kong: the form and significance of a high-density urban development

2. Some legal aspects of urbanization in Hong Kong

3. Housing provision in Hong Kong

4. The development of new towns

5. The delineation of blighted areas in urban Hong Kong

6. The Aplichau squatter area: a case study

7. Some aspects of the Hong Kong resettlement programme

8. Problems of the small industrial unit

9. The growth of internal public passenger transport

10. Mass transport in Hong Kong

11. The hinterlands of towns in the New Territories.

Notes:

"Some of the chapters in this volume were originally given at a series of seminars on problems of urbanization held in the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-70536-9

9786612705366

988-220-029-X

OCLC:

652326846