K C Ho
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K C Ho |
| GIVEN NAMES | K C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ho |
| SIGNATURE | HO K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Factors associated with alcohol use disorder among young adults from ethnic minorities: A cross-sectional study
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) has become a significant medical problem among young adults from ethnic minorities. Despite being disproportionately affected by AUD, existing literature often overlooks factors contributing to AUD within this group compared to the general population. Therefore, this study aimed to identify factors associated with AUD among young adults from ethnic minorities in Hong Kong, China. A cross-sectional study was conducted fr…
City building knowledge from neighbourhoods in Asia Pacific
Neighbourhoods are places of social encounters on a daily basis, but they are getting insufficient attention from policy makers and urban studies in conceptualising the city. While the city is often the unit of analysis and boundaries of data collection, social constructions of the city are mostly from neighbourhoods. By shifting the analysis to the neighbourhood scale, we are moving scholarship and research on two fronts. First, we need to think…
Spatial capital, cultural consumption and expatriate neighbourhoods in Hanoi, Vietnam
Cities of the Global South constitute a wide band in terms of their integration into the global economy. For cities like Hanoi, the sustained influx of foreign direct investments has propelled them into playing increasingly important roles as manufacturing centres. Along with this new role is the influx of expatriate managers who watch overseas manufacturing subsidiaries. Our paper focuses on Korean expatriate neighbourhoods and their impacts on …
Land and Housing in Singapore: Three Conversations with Anne Haila
Anne Haila is credited as one of the pioneers in developing a new theory of urban rent, distinct from neo-Marxist treatments of rent in the 1970s. In this reformulation, she looks into the agents and institutions of land, with land as a financial asset, where its management and use become pivotal to our understanding of the contemporary city. One of the central elements in this reformulation is the attention paid to the state and its management o…
Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum
Discrepant knowledge and interAsian mobilities: Unlikely Movements, Uncertain Futures
10.1080/01596306.2018.1464429
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities
Chapter 1. Introduction: Purpose, Themes and a Pathway Through the Book The Editors Section I. Theory: Situating the New Culturual Economy in the Asian City Chapter 2. Changing Landscapes of Services and Restructuring in Asian Cities Peter Daniels Chapter 3. The Cultural Turn and Urban Development in Asia Tom Hutton Chapter 4. The Cultural Economy and the Relayering of Space in the City K C Ho Section II. The New Cultural Economy and the Reconstr…
Fluidity of Place: Globalization and the Transformation of Urban Space
The Neighbourhood in the Creative Economy: Policy, Practice and Place in Singapore
This paper examines the wild and unruly side of the creative economy and how work-styles associated with this form of production are closely tied to particular types of urban environment. In the case of Singapore, the policy to grow creative industry as a key competitive strategy has focused on building infrastructure, manpower and alliances without space provision for a range of activities. State policies, especially in the education of creative…
Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia: The Social Production of Civic Spaces
Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi 2. Civil Society for Itself and in the Public Sphere -- Comparative Research on Globalization, Cities and Civic Space in Pacific Asia Mike Douglass 3. Governing Cities: Civic Spaces, Civil Society and Urban Politics K.C. Ho 4. State-Society Relations, the City and Civic Space Giok Ling Ooi 5. Chinese Public Space: A Brief Account Heng Chye Kiang 6. …
Where do community iconic structures fit in a globalizing city
In this paper, K. C. Ho considers the iconicity of community buildings, such as schools and churches, rather than buildings of the private sector or state. Iconicity is understood as the ability of a building to be meaningful to a wider group of people. Built with the support of a particular community, community iconic buildings derive symbolic values by reflecting shared memory, identity and solidarity of a society. The paper discusses two examp…
Globalization and Southeast Asian Capital Cities
Asia.com: Asia Encounters the Internet
1. Asia Encounters the Internet Part 1 Perspectives and Critical Orientations 2. The State of Internet Use in Asia 3. Catching Up and Falling Behind: Inequality, IT and the Asian diaspora 4. Cyberspace, Surveillance and Social Control: The hidden face of the Internet in Asia 5. Global Technology Meets Local Environment: State attempts to control Internet content 6. Piracy, Open Source and International Intellectual Property Law Part 2 Issues and …
Attracting and Retaining Investments in Uncertain Times: Singapore in South-east Asia
This paper takes a political economy approach in evaluating the state's role in investment promotion. Using the Asian financial crisis as an opportunity to study regulatory mechanisms, the paper examines both state-society relations as well as relations between Singapore and its neighbours, Indonesia and Malaysia. The difficult policies which Singapore enacted during the crisis-namely, a wage-cut as well as the drive to recruit foreign skilled la…
Sites' of resistance: Alternative Websites and State-Society Relations 1
Much attention has been focused on Singapore's attempt to use information technology to build a knowledge-based economy. This paper examines the implications of the unintended consequences of the Internet in the restructuring of state and society relations in Singapore.We use the data on Singapore-based and Singapore-related websites to show (a) the diversity of positions expressed by civil society organizations, fringe groups and even mainstream…
Interconnected Worlds: Tourism in Southeast Asia
Preface. The contributors. List of tables. List of figures. Introduction: Globalisation and interconnectedness in Southeast Asian tourism (P. Teo et al.). Regional Context. Tourism and political relationships in Southeast Asia (C.M. Hall). Towards a regional analysis of tourism in Southeast Asia (D.G. Pearce). Deterritorialisation and New Regionalisms. Singapore tourism: capital ambitions and regional connections (T.C. Chang, K. Raguraman). Touri…
Competing to be Regional Centres: A Multi-agency, Multi-locational Perspective
This paper recognises that the economic fabric of cities has to be considered as a dynamic outcome of aggregate outcomes of decisions by different agents made with reference to other competing locations. Drawing on interview material from a multi-industry and multi-city sample as well as company listings compiled in three countries, this paper illustrates the location dynamics of regional functions of multinational companies and the consequences …
Corporate regional functions in Asia Pacific
Drawing on managerial interview material from a multi‐industry sample, this paper sketches the locational dynamics of regional functions in the Asia Pacific. Generic factors like proximity to company affiliates and market access are discussed, along with industry specific dynamics for air delivery and online information services. The paper ends with an analysis of the inertia created by agglomeration effects of established places versus the compe…
Political Legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore
The Global Economy and Urban Society in Pacific Asia
The economic growth in Pacific Asia is a result of the integration of various countries into the global economy. This integration is however disproportionate, impacting on major cities rather than intermediate cities and rural areas. The result is that as metropolitan economies expand, new migrants and foreign workers add to an urban cultural mosaic that is already complicated by new gender and class divisions. While urban societies in Pacific As…
Semi-periphery and borderland integration: Singapore and Hong Kong experiences
Singapore: The Global City-State
Comprehensive evaluation of the market conditions and opportunities that will be relevant to traders, businessmen and other observers of the Singaporean economy and market-place, together with objective but informed analysis
City-States in the Global Economy: Industrial Restructuring in Hong Kong and Singapore
Hong Kong and Singapore in the World Economy * Historical Trajectories: Common Legacies, Different Outcomes * Hong Kong: Locked into Labor-intensive Manufacturing * Singapore: Manufacturing Fortunes in Sunrise and High Noon Industries * Hong Kong versus Singapore: Divergent Paths of Economic Change * Comparing Institutional Legacies and Trajectories * Conclusion
Industrial Restructuring, the Singapore City-State, and the Regional Division of Labour
With continuous economic growth in the 1970s and 1980s and increasing overseas competition, Singapore, as a small city-state with an open economy, faces perhaps the greatest challenge among the Asian newly industrialised economies in their attempts to maintain the pace of development. The effects of a chronic labour-supply situation and the appreciating Singapore dollar on the export competitiveness of the manufacturing sector are reviewed. Enter…
Industrial Restructuring and the Dynamics of City-State Adjustments
This paper directs attention to the rapid industrial changes experienced by the city-state in the past thirty years and the problems associated with a maturing economy. To provide a deeper understanding of the adjustment process, the analysis is done within the context of firm, state, and labour interactions. The analysis indicates that with land and labour resources becoming fully utilised, the city-state adjusts to the requirements of internati…
Sites' of resistance: Alternative Websites and State-Society Relations 1
Much attention has been focused on Singapore's attempt to use information technology to build a knowledge-based economy. This paper examines the implications of the unintended consequences of the Internet in the restructuring of state and society relations in Singapore.We use the data on Singapore-based and Singapore-related websites to show (a) the diversity of positions expressed by civil society organizations, fringe groups and even mainstream…
Industrial Restructuring, the Singapore City-State, and the Regional Division of Labour
With continuous economic growth in the 1970s and 1980s and increasing overseas competition, Singapore, as a small city-state with an open economy, faces perhaps the greatest challenge among the Asian newly industrialised economies in their attempts to maintain the pace of development. The effects of a chronic labour-supply situation and the appreciating Singapore dollar on the export competitiveness of the manufacturing sector are reviewed. Enter…
Semi-periphery and borderland integration: Singapore and Hong Kong experiences
Industrial Restructuring and the Dynamics of City-State Adjustments
This paper directs attention to the rapid industrial changes experienced by the city-state in the past thirty years and the problems associated with a maturing economy. To provide a deeper understanding of the adjustment process, the analysis is done within the context of firm, state, and labour interactions. The analysis indicates that with land and labour resources becoming fully utilised, the city-state adjusts to the requirements of internati…
Discrepant knowledge and interAsian mobilities: Unlikely Movements, Uncertain Futures
10.1080/01596306.2018.1464429
Where do community iconic structures fit in a globalizing city
In this paper, K. C. Ho considers the iconicity of community buildings, such as schools and churches, rather than buildings of the private sector or state. Iconicity is understood as the ability of a building to be meaningful to a wider group of people. Built with the support of a particular community, community iconic buildings derive symbolic values by reflecting shared memory, identity and solidarity of a society. The paper discusses two examp…
The Neighbourhood in the Creative Economy: Policy, Practice and Place in Singapore
This paper examines the wild and unruly side of the creative economy and how work-styles associated with this form of production are closely tied to particular types of urban environment. In the case of Singapore, the policy to grow creative industry as a key competitive strategy has focused on building infrastructure, manpower and alliances without space provision for a range of activities. State policies, especially in the education of creative…
Competing to be Regional Centres: A Multi-agency, Multi-locational Perspective
This paper recognises that the economic fabric of cities has to be considered as a dynamic outcome of aggregate outcomes of decisions by different agents made with reference to other competing locations. Drawing on interview material from a multi-industry and multi-city sample as well as company listings compiled in three countries, this paper illustrates the location dynamics of regional functions of multinational companies and the consequences …
Corporate regional functions in Asia Pacific
Drawing on managerial interview material from a multi‐industry sample, this paper sketches the locational dynamics of regional functions in the Asia Pacific. Generic factors like proximity to company affiliates and market access are discussed, along with industry specific dynamics for air delivery and online information services. The paper ends with an analysis of the inertia created by agglomeration effects of established places versus the compe…
Globalization and Southeast Asian Capital Cities
Land and Housing in Singapore: Three Conversations with Anne Haila
Anne Haila is credited as one of the pioneers in developing a new theory of urban rent, distinct from neo-Marxist treatments of rent in the 1970s. In this reformulation, she looks into the agents and institutions of land, with land as a financial asset, where its management and use become pivotal to our understanding of the contemporary city. One of the central elements in this reformulation is the attention paid to the state and its management o…
Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum
City building knowledge from neighbourhoods in Asia Pacific
Neighbourhoods are places of social encounters on a daily basis, but they are getting insufficient attention from policy makers and urban studies in conceptualising the city. While the city is often the unit of analysis and boundaries of data collection, social constructions of the city are mostly from neighbourhoods. By shifting the analysis to the neighbourhood scale, we are moving scholarship and research on two fronts. First, we need to think…
Attracting and Retaining Investments in Uncertain Times: Singapore in South-east Asia
This paper takes a political economy approach in evaluating the state's role in investment promotion. Using the Asian financial crisis as an opportunity to study regulatory mechanisms, the paper examines both state-society relations as well as relations between Singapore and its neighbours, Indonesia and Malaysia. The difficult policies which Singapore enacted during the crisis-namely, a wage-cut as well as the drive to recruit foreign skilled la…
Industrial Restructuring and the Dynamics of City-State Adjustments
This paper directs attention to the rapid industrial changes experienced by the city-state in the past thirty years and the problems associated with a maturing economy. To provide a deeper understanding of the adjustment process, the analysis is done within the context of firm, state, and labour interactions. The analysis indicates that with land and labour resources becoming fully utilised, the city-state adjusts to the requirements of internati…
Industrial Restructuring, the Singapore City-State, and the Regional Division of Labour
With continuous economic growth in the 1970s and 1980s and increasing overseas competition, Singapore, as a small city-state with an open economy, faces perhaps the greatest challenge among the Asian newly industrialised economies in their attempts to maintain the pace of development. The effects of a chronic labour-supply situation and the appreciating Singapore dollar on the export competitiveness of the manufacturing sector are reviewed. Enter…
The Global Economy and Urban Society in Pacific Asia
The economic growth in Pacific Asia is a result of the integration of various countries into the global economy. This integration is however disproportionate, impacting on major cities rather than intermediate cities and rural areas. The result is that as metropolitan economies expand, new migrants and foreign workers add to an urban cultural mosaic that is already complicated by new gender and class divisions. While urban societies in Pacific As…
Semi-periphery and borderland integration: Singapore and Hong Kong experiences
Singapore: The Global City-State
Comprehensive evaluation of the market conditions and opportunities that will be relevant to traders, businessmen and other observers of the Singaporean economy and market-place, together with objective but informed analysis
City-States in the Global Economy: Industrial Restructuring in Hong Kong and Singapore
Hong Kong and Singapore in the World Economy * Historical Trajectories: Common Legacies, Different Outcomes * Hong Kong: Locked into Labor-intensive Manufacturing * Singapore: Manufacturing Fortunes in Sunrise and High Noon Industries * Hong Kong versus Singapore: Divergent Paths of Economic Change * Comparing Institutional Legacies and Trajectories * Conclusion
Corporate regional functions in Asia Pacific
Drawing on managerial interview material from a multi‐industry sample, this paper sketches the locational dynamics of regional functions in the Asia Pacific. Generic factors like proximity to company affiliates and market access are discussed, along with industry specific dynamics for air delivery and online information services. The paper ends with an analysis of the inertia created by agglomeration effects of established places versus the compe…
Political Legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore
Competing to be Regional Centres: A Multi-agency, Multi-locational Perspective
This paper recognises that the economic fabric of cities has to be considered as a dynamic outcome of aggregate outcomes of decisions by different agents made with reference to other competing locations. Drawing on interview material from a multi-industry and multi-city sample as well as company listings compiled in three countries, this paper illustrates the location dynamics of regional functions of multinational companies and the consequences …
Interconnected Worlds: Tourism in Southeast Asia
Preface. The contributors. List of tables. List of figures. Introduction: Globalisation and interconnectedness in Southeast Asian tourism (P. Teo et al.). Regional Context. Tourism and political relationships in Southeast Asia (C.M. Hall). Towards a regional analysis of tourism in Southeast Asia (D.G. Pearce). Deterritorialisation and New Regionalisms. Singapore tourism: capital ambitions and regional connections (T.C. Chang, K. Raguraman). Touri…
Sites' of resistance: Alternative Websites and State-Society Relations 1
Much attention has been focused on Singapore's attempt to use information technology to build a knowledge-based economy. This paper examines the implications of the unintended consequences of the Internet in the restructuring of state and society relations in Singapore.We use the data on Singapore-based and Singapore-related websites to show (a) the diversity of positions expressed by civil society organizations, fringe groups and even mainstream…
Asia.com: Asia Encounters the Internet
1. Asia Encounters the Internet Part 1 Perspectives and Critical Orientations 2. The State of Internet Use in Asia 3. Catching Up and Falling Behind: Inequality, IT and the Asian diaspora 4. Cyberspace, Surveillance and Social Control: The hidden face of the Internet in Asia 5. Global Technology Meets Local Environment: State attempts to control Internet content 6. Piracy, Open Source and International Intellectual Property Law Part 2 Issues and …
Attracting and Retaining Investments in Uncertain Times: Singapore in South-east Asia
This paper takes a political economy approach in evaluating the state's role in investment promotion. Using the Asian financial crisis as an opportunity to study regulatory mechanisms, the paper examines both state-society relations as well as relations between Singapore and its neighbours, Indonesia and Malaysia. The difficult policies which Singapore enacted during the crisis-namely, a wage-cut as well as the drive to recruit foreign skilled la…
Globalization and Southeast Asian Capital Cities
Where do community iconic structures fit in a globalizing city
In this paper, K. C. Ho considers the iconicity of community buildings, such as schools and churches, rather than buildings of the private sector or state. Iconicity is understood as the ability of a building to be meaningful to a wider group of people. Built with the support of a particular community, community iconic buildings derive symbolic values by reflecting shared memory, identity and solidarity of a society. The paper discusses two examp…
Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia: The Social Production of Civic Spaces
Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi 2. Civil Society for Itself and in the Public Sphere -- Comparative Research on Globalization, Cities and Civic Space in Pacific Asia Mike Douglass 3. Governing Cities: Civic Spaces, Civil Society and Urban Politics K.C. Ho 4. State-Society Relations, the City and Civic Space Giok Ling Ooi 5. Chinese Public Space: A Brief Account Heng Chye Kiang 6. …
The Neighbourhood in the Creative Economy: Policy, Practice and Place in Singapore
This paper examines the wild and unruly side of the creative economy and how work-styles associated with this form of production are closely tied to particular types of urban environment. In the case of Singapore, the policy to grow creative industry as a key competitive strategy has focused on building infrastructure, manpower and alliances without space provision for a range of activities. State policies, especially in the education of creative…
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities
Chapter 1. Introduction: Purpose, Themes and a Pathway Through the Book The Editors Section I. Theory: Situating the New Culturual Economy in the Asian City Chapter 2. Changing Landscapes of Services and Restructuring in Asian Cities Peter Daniels Chapter 3. The Cultural Turn and Urban Development in Asia Tom Hutton Chapter 4. The Cultural Economy and the Relayering of Space in the City K C Ho Section II. The New Cultural Economy and the Reconstr…
Fluidity of Place: Globalization and the Transformation of Urban Space
Discrepant knowledge and interAsian mobilities: Unlikely Movements, Uncertain Futures
10.1080/01596306.2018.1464429
Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum
Land and Housing in Singapore: Three Conversations with Anne Haila
Anne Haila is credited as one of the pioneers in developing a new theory of urban rent, distinct from neo-Marxist treatments of rent in the 1970s. In this reformulation, she looks into the agents and institutions of land, with land as a financial asset, where its management and use become pivotal to our understanding of the contemporary city. One of the central elements in this reformulation is the attention paid to the state and its management o…
City building knowledge from neighbourhoods in Asia Pacific
Neighbourhoods are places of social encounters on a daily basis, but they are getting insufficient attention from policy makers and urban studies in conceptualising the city. While the city is often the unit of analysis and boundaries of data collection, social constructions of the city are mostly from neighbourhoods. By shifting the analysis to the neighbourhood scale, we are moving scholarship and research on two fronts. First, we need to think…
Spatial capital, cultural consumption and expatriate neighbourhoods in Hanoi, Vietnam
Cities of the Global South constitute a wide band in terms of their integration into the global economy. For cities like Hanoi, the sustained influx of foreign direct investments has propelled them into playing increasingly important roles as manufacturing centres. Along with this new role is the influx of expatriate managers who watch overseas manufacturing subsidiaries. Our paper focuses on Korean expatriate neighbourhoods and their impacts on …
Factors associated with alcohol use disorder among young adults from ethnic minorities: A cross-sectional study
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) has become a significant medical problem among young adults from ethnic minorities. Despite being disproportionately affected by AUD, existing literature often overlooks factors contributing to AUD within this group compared to the general population. Therefore, this study aimed to identify factors associated with AUD among young adults from ethnic minorities in Hong Kong, China. A cross-sectional study was conducted fr…
Political science (18 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (17 works) · Geography (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economic geography (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Economy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Business (8 works)