Miles Glendinning

Hong Kong Public Housing (eBook, ePUB)

An Architectural and Policy History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317191247
• Artikelnr.: 72283276

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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