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New Territories: Deconstructing and Constructing Countryside – The Great Divide of Rural and Urban In Hong Kong
Author(s) -
Lange Christiane
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2073
Subject(s) - rural area , government (linguistics) , immigration , china , meaning (existential) , compensation (psychology) , population , economic growth , political science , geography , economy , sociology , development economics , law , economics , demography , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist
When mass immigration led to a sixfold population increase in the first two postwar decades, the Hong Kong government's response was to build nine new towns, designate 40 per cent of the land as country parks for urban dwellers' benefit, and allocate buildable plots as compensation to displaced villagers. Guest‐Editor Christiane Lange examines how these well meaning efforts broke the cultural and social ties between people and the land that are essential to sustaining a productive rural landscape: a cautionary tale for designers and planners involved in developing the countryside.