Hong Kong Public Housing - An Architectural and Policy History

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.

List of contents

Introduction - A mirror of identity? Public housing in Hong Kong
PART 1: TOWARDS A PUBLIC HOUSING DRIVE
Chapter 1
1945-1953: Laying the foundations
Chapter 2
1954-1957: Shek Kip Mei and the Resettlement revolution
Chapter 3
1958-1964: Robin Black and incremental reform
Chapter 4
1964-1971: Trench's governorship - pragmatism and tentative reformism
PART 2: THE MACLEHOSE YEARS
Chapter 5
1971-1973: Building a 'model city'? The MacLehose Revolution
Chapter 6
1973-1976: Utopia on hold - from crisis management to programme planning
Chapter 7
MacLehose's 'brainchild': The Home Ownership Scheme
Chapter 8
1977-1982: Consolidating the revolution
PART 3: COUNTDOWN TO THE HANDOVER
Chapter 9
1982-1986: Youde's governorship - from sovereignty to stabilisation
Chapter 10
1987-1992: The Wilson years - accelerated decolonisation and the Housing Strategy
Chapter 11
Living in 'Harmony': a revolution in Hong Kong housing design
Chapter 12
1992-1997: The last Governor - from constitutional impasse to housing boom
PART 4: JULY 1997 TO THE PRESENT DAY
Chapter 13
1997-2005: The Tung administration - building a 'new identity' through public housing?
Chapter 14
2005 to the present: a frustrated recovery?
Conclusion
Hong Kong housing - a monumental heritage of the Lion Rock Spirit

About the author

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Miles Glendinning, Glendinning Miles
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2024
• EAN: 9781138680227
• ISBN: 978-1-138-68022-7
• No. of pages: 518
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Architecture, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Hong Kong, Social groups, The environment, Politics & government, Social welfare & social services, Social discrimination & inequality, Property & real estate, Social and cultural history, Social welfare and social services, Regional & area planning, Science / Environmental Science, Politics and government, Asian History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Housing & homelessness, Property and real estate, Housing and homelessness, Regional and area planning, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities