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- Title
Hong Kong's Socioeconomic Divide on the Rise: Lessons from the 'Redevelopment' of the Graham Street Market.
- Authors
MARINELLI, Maurizio
- Abstract
In 2007, Hong Kong's Urban Renewal Authority declared the 150-year-old Graham Street Market 'a slum' and announced 'redevelopment' plans that would replace it with four luxury high-rise office buildings and hotels. This essay analyses the market's historical function and the actions of concerned civil society organisations vis-a-vis government authorities and urban developers in the battle to 'save the market'. It argues that the Graham Street Market is both a laboratory for normative urban governmentality and a testing ground for grassroots practices of collective identity and sustainability.
- Subjects
HONG Kong (China); SLUMS; OFFICE buildings; HOTELS; SUSTAINABILITY
- Publication
Made in China Journal, 2021, Vol 6, Issue 3, p114
- ISSN
2652-6352
- Publication type
Article