Beebeejaun, Yasminah;
(2022)
Europe and the people without planning: reconsidering British interventions in colonial Hong Kong.
Town Planning Review
10.3828/tpr.2022.2.
(In press).
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Abstract
The commissioning of a plan by Patrick Abercrombie for British Hong Kong in 1947 is the entry point to explore claims of ‘benevolent colonialism’. Through an engagement with British colonial attitudes towards the majority Chinese population, we can critically re-evaluate claims that British planning brought a more enlightened form of urbanism. Instead, we find colonial inaction and a marked difference in housing and development standards based largely on racial distinctions between the perceived needs of European and Chinese inhabitants. By situating planning efforts in Hong Kong within the racial hierarchies of empire, we can examine how imperial power bolstered British planning.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Europe and the people without planning: reconsidering British interventions in colonial Hong Kong |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3828/tpr.2022.2 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2022.2 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Hong Kong, Patrick Abercrombie, postcolonial theory, planning theory, planning historiography, British colonial planning |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153084 |
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