Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People
Title | Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People PDF eBook |
Author | Yue Chim Richard Wong |
Publisher | Hong Kong University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9888208659 |
Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated cities. Land supply, property values, and housing provision are inextricably linked with the city’s economic growth and questions of economic equality. In Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, Yue Chim Richard Wong traces the history of Hong Kong’s postwar housing policy. He then discusses current housing problems and their solutions, drawing on examples from around the world. Wong argues that housing policy in Hong Kong, with its multiple, often incompatible objectives, and its focus on supply over demand, can no longer satisfy the needs of a diverse and dynamic population. He recommends three simple low-cost policies to promote homeownership and social mobility: sell public rental housing units to the sitting tenants; make subsidized homes more affordable; and reform the public housing program along lines adopted in Singapore, where government-built housing may be resold or leased in a free market. This is the second of Richard Wong’s collections of articles on society and economy in Hong Kong. The first, Diversity and Occasional Anarchy, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2013, examines the growing contradictions in Hong Kong’s economy predicament in historical context.
Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong
Title | Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Poon |
Publisher | Enrich Professional Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Elite (Social sciences) |
ISBN | 9789814339100 |
This book reveals an insider's view on how Hong Kong's land system, inherited from the British, has helped to create unrivalled wealth for the ruling class, how the lack of competition law has encouraged industrial and economic concentration in the same entities, and how these factors have given rise to a host of social and economic ills. The Chinese version has become the bestseller of non-fiction titles in Hong Kong in 2010.
The Government's High-land-price Policy
Title | The Government's High-land-price Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Loh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Land use |
ISBN |
Land and Housing Controversies in Hong Kong
Title | Land and Housing Controversies in Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Yung |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2020-07-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9811552665 |
This book discusses land and housing controversies in Hong Kong, which offer a point of reference for the comparison and analysis of similar or contrasting cases overseas from the perspective of social values. It enhances readers’ understanding of the social values, philosophical and theoretical issues that underpin land and housing controversies, as well as their policy implications. The discussion in each chapter goes beyond mere substantive and contextual analysis, and is explicitly positioned and theorized within the broader context of social values, with a theoretical and philosophical framework for assessing the issue concerned. The book is interdisciplinary in nature, with each chapter integrating two or more disciplines to examine various controversial land and housing issues.
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Title | Maid to Order in Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Constable |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780801483820 |
The forms of discipline range from physical abuse to intrusive regulations including restrictions on hair length and the prohibition of lipstick.
Consuming Hong Kong
Title | Consuming Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Mathews |
Publisher | Hong Kong University Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2001-10-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9622095461 |
Consumption forms an essential part of Hong Kong people's lives today, but until now little serious attention has been paid to it. This book fills this gap, in a fascinating way. The contributors to this volume explore such topics as: - the coming of shopping malls to Hong Kong - tenants' senses of home in cramped public housing - the experiences of movie-going - alcohol as a marker of social class - the pursuit of fashion - Chinese art and identity among Hong Kong collectors - the dream and reality of owning a flat - Lan Kwai Fong and its mystique - the McDonald's Snoopy craze of fall 1998 - cultural identity and consumption in Hong Kong today This book shows how the detailed ehtnographic study of consumption in Hong Kong can lead to a deeper understanding of Hong Kong life as a whole, as well as of consumption in the world at large.
The Other Hong Kong Report 1998
Title | The Other Hong Kong Report 1998 PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Chuen-ho Chow |
Publisher | Chinese University Press |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1998-12-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789622018297 |
Published annually since 1989, "The Other Hong Kong Report" is a review of the various aspects of development in Hong Kong in the past year by scholars and experts, who are not government officials, and is intended to offer an alternative view to that portrayed in government publications.