Hong Kong Public Housing: An Architectural and Policy History

by Miles Glendinning

Hong Kong Public Housing provides the first comprehensive history of one of the most dramatic episodes in the global history of the modern built environment: the vast public housing programme sponsored by successive Hong Kong governments from the 1950s, in a quest to build up the territory into a lasting 'people's home'. And unlike many of its counterparts elsewhere, this is a programme still ongoing today - a case of 'history in progress'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138680222
• ISBN13: 9781138680227
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 536 Pages