The regional context of urban Hong Kong
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Building journal Hong Kong China, Dec, 1990, pp. 36-37
Abstract
Hong Kong has a unique history and, to understand its uniqueness, we should search out the unique circumstances by which Hong Kong people exist, survive and succeed.
Hong Kong has no national planning (it is not a nation), no regional planning (it has no region) and barely any town planning until the last three decades-mainly due to pressure from housing, traffic and transport.
Development of the infrastructure, otherwise, has been carried out in response to private development requirements, with any investment risks mainly absorbed by the private sector.
It is, however, the most successful laissez-faire economic system in the world.
The most-significant factors of success, I believe, are the ever-changing interface and interplay between private secotr and government on the one hand and the mutual utilisation, mainly due to economic necessity, between Hong Kong and China.
The future success of Hong Kong will continue to depend on these two factors, and it is in this third, and last, of my series that I examine this phenomenon.
(1) What is Hong Kong?
(2) Thy physical Hong Kong
(3) The Hong Kong people
(4) Economic Development
(5) Future of our economy
(6) Urban and rural economics
(7) Successful regional economic
(8) Conclusion
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1990
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en