Hong Kong: The political economy of urban development

by Francesca Miazzo, Jelle Adamse, & Anna Hult

During the summer 2007, the department of Urban Planning of the UvA organized a study trip in Hong Kong. We decided to realize a research about the political economy of urban development of the metropolitan area. We realized a movie because we wanted to show the incredible variety of images that this city provided to us.

We visited governmental spatial planning and infrastructure agencies, private transport and real estate development companies. Then we attained field trips to the new towns in the periphery of the Hong Kong metropolis. Moreover, we witnessed the strategy behind a project characterized by a comprehensive combination of metro-station-shopping center-and real estate development.

The video summarizes the new experiences and inspirations that Hong Kong gave to us. It is divided in four sections according to the indicators provided by the comprehensive framework developed by H.V. Savitch and Paul Kantor in their book Cities in the international marketplace:

market position
intergovernmental support
public control
local culture

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