The Shek Kip Mei Myth: Squatters, Fires and Colonial Rule in Hong Kong, 1950-1963
- ISBN-10
- 9622097936
- ISBN-13
- 9789622097933
- Category
- Housing policy
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Author
- Alan Smart
Description
"The Shek Kip Mei Myth" provides a new explanation for the beginnings of Hong Kong's massive public housing program, tracing it to the colonial govenrment's inability to resolve the squatter problem due to constraints posed by the geopolitics of the early Cold War.
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- 2006-06-01
- 264 pages
- Ebook
- Hong Kong University Press
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