The history of planning for Kowloon City

Lawrence W.C. LAI; Mark Hansley CHUA

doi:10.1080/02665433.2017.1331751

The history of planning for Kowloon City

Lawrence W.C. LAI^*, Mark Hansley CHUA

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Abstract

This short paper identifies from archival and published materials plans for a place called Kowloon City which had an Imperial Chinese military purpose and is now a public park (officially called ‘Kowloon Walled City Park’) after a long period of dispute over its jurisdiction. These plans were mostly produced by the colonial Hong Kong government that made the first planned attempt to clear the place of Chinese residents for a public garden in the 1930s, but this garden could only be built after the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration. They testified to the fact that the City has always been planned.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	97-112
Number of pages	16
Journal	Planning Perspectives
Volume	33
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2017.1331751
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

City of Darkness
history of planning
Kowloon City
town plans

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