The Shek Kip Mei Myth
ISBN: 9789882203853
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Hong Kong University Press, HKU
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Squatter settlements; Relocation (Housing); Housing policy;

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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