Hong Kong Public Housing

An Architectural and Policy History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Hong Kong Public Housing provides the first comprehensive history of one of the most dramatic episodes in the global history of the modern built environment: the vast public housing programme sponsored by successive Hong Kong governments from the 1950s, in a quest to build up the territory into a lasting ‘people’s home’. And unlike many of its counterparts elsewhere, this is a programme still ongoing today – a case of ‘history in progress’ – as Hong Kong now boasts one of the world’s longest-lasting public housing programmes. During that time, it has been not just a mirror of the cultural and economic values of Hong Kong society but also a reflection of more nebulous, fast-changing perceptions of identity – and a testament to the community-building achievements of Hongkongers over these years.This authoritative study combines architectural history with the broader social, political, and cultural aspects of housing production – particularly the geo-political issues of sovereignty and decolonisation that uniquely, and fundamentally, structured the trajectory of Hong Kong public housing and territory development. Exploring the relationship between built form, ideology, and administrative governance, it shows how massive state intervention interacted at times uneasily with Hong Kong’s dominant laissez-faire ethos, to help maintain the legitimacy of successive administrations during an era of ‘auto-decolonisation’, and support an interstitial society suspended between two sovereignties. Following more recent political changes, Hong Kong’s public housing heritage has also become a focus of nostalgic community pride – a monumental achievement of ‘home building’ which this book documents and celebrates for posterity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-11-25
Mått156 x 234 x 33 mm
Vikt1 150 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor518
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138680227

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Introduction - A mirror of identity? Public housing in Hong KongPART 1: TOWARDS A PUBLIC HOUSING DRIVEChapter 11945-1953: Laying the foundationsChapter 21954-1957: Shek Kip Mei and the Resettlement revolutionChapter 31958-1964: Robin Black and incremental reformChapter 41964-1971: Trench’s governorship – pragmatism and tentative reformismPART 2: THE MACLEHOSE YEARSChapter 51971-1973: Building a ‘model city’? The MacLehose Revolution Chapter 61973-1976: Utopia on hold - from crisis management to programme planning Chapter 7MacLehose’s ‘brainchild’: The Home Ownership Scheme Chapter 81977-1982: Consolidating the revolutionPART 3: COUNTDOWN TO THE HANDOVERChapter 91982-1986: Youde’s governorship – from sovereignty to stabilisationChapter 101987-1992: The Wilson years - accelerated decolonisation and the Housing StrategyChapter 11Living in ‘Harmony’: a revolution in Hong Kong housing designChapter 121992-1997: The last Governor – from constitutional impasse to housing boomPART 4: JULY 1997 TO THE PRESENT DAYChapter 131997-2005: The Tung administration - building a ‘new identity’ through public housing?Chapter 142005 to the present: a frustrated recovery?ConclusionHong Kong housing - a monumental heritage of the Lion Rock Spirit

“Hong Kong Public Housing offers a bold and novel contribution by adopting a bi-modal lens, planning policy and architecture, to reinterpret the city’s public housing history… Glendinning’s fine-grained analyses, which deconstruct myths portraying Hong Kong’s public housing story as a ‘miracle’ simply born from the devastating 1953 Shek Kip Mei fire or as an adjunct to the city’s industrialization and rise as an Asian Tiger, make the book a compelling a read… Glendinning’s balanced critique of both colonial and post-handover housing policies stands out as exemplary.”Luk, Y. X. C. (2025). Hong Kong Public Housing: An Architectural and Policy History: by Miles Glendinning, Oxfordshire and New York, Routledge, 2024, 517 pp., £94.50 (e-book), £105.00 (hardback). Planning Perspectives, 40(5), 1416–1418. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2548077