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 the social, social justice in particular?
• spatial injustice Gini Year Coefficient 1971 0.43 1981 0.451 1991 0.476 2001 0.525 2011 0.533
‘Pocket of decay’
• 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)
• urban utopia dialectical utopianism, informed by social justice
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