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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.
Table des matières
Introduction - A mirror of identity? Public housing in Hong KongPART 1: TOWARDS A PUBLIC HOUSING DRIVEChapter 11945-1953: Laying the foundations Chapter 21954-1957: Shek Kip Mei and the Resettlement revolution Chapter 31958-1964: Robin Black and incremental reform Chapter 41964-1971: Trench's governorship - pragmatism and tentative reformism PART 2: THE MACLEHOSE YEARS Chapter 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
A propos de l'auteur
Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Résumé
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.
