Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963-1985

by Alan Smart and Chi Keung Charles Fung

In Public Housing and Formalizing Squatting in Hong Kong, 1963-1985, Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles trace two decades of development of squatting in Hong Kong. The authors reconstruct the government policy on squatting through both ethnographic and archival research. The book sheds new light on the consequences of various attempts to control encroachment on scarce urban space. It argues that intersecting policy agendas resulted in decisions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888805649
• ISBN13: 9789888805648
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 340 Pages