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CITIES, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING NOVEMBER 2011 Unsettling High-Density Development in Hong Kong Wing-Shing TANG Department of Geography Hong Kong Baptist University modernist planning/CIAM/Ekistics ... Physical designs --> social changes


  1. CITIES, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING NOVEMBER 2011

  2. Unsettling High-Density Development in Hong Kong Wing-Shing TANG Department of Geography Hong Kong Baptist University

  3. • modernist planning/CIAM/Ekistics ... Physical designs --> social changes the social, social justice in particular?

  4. • spatial injustice Gini Year Coefficient 1971 0.43 1981 0.451 1991 0.476 2001 0.525 2011 0.533

  5. ‘Pocket of decay’

  6. • processes hidden in the rhetoric of “too few land, lots of people” Hon. Miss Dunn in 1977: “... [T]he Government does not have a programme of production of land for sale . ... [T]he Government regards such land as simply an asset for sale for revenue purposes . ” (Hong Kong Hansard 31 March 1977: 747, quoted in Bristow 1984: 116)

  7. • urban utopia dialectical utopianism, informed by social justice

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