Max Hirsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3769001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Hirsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirsh |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The airport as urban territory
The Transnational Origins of China's Aviation Infrastructure
This article investigates the role of foreign technical experts in developing China's aviation infrastructure from the 1980s to the present. Focusing on a series of training and technical aid programmes, it traces the influx of critical know-how from Europe, Japan and North America during the period of reform and opening up. Through fieldwork conducted at airports in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai – and expert interviews with architects, planner…
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong and the Center for Asian Studies at the
Infrastructure, Modernity, and the Technologies of Everyday Life
The article shares key insights gleaned from a multiyear collaborative research project on the role of everyday technologies in the making of modern East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present. It explains the three key concepts that have guided the authors’ collective research on technological processes and modernity—East Asia as a region, infrastructure, and the everyday—illustrating each with specific examples drawn from the domains o…
Cities and Social Progress
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Emerging infrastructures of low-cost aviation in Southeast Asia
Air traffic in Southeast Asia has grown at an extraordinary rate due to the emergence of low-cost aviation networks that serve a vastly enlarged clientele of air travelers: migrant workers, students, retirees, pilgrims, and tourists on the threshold of the middle class. The article investigates how Southeast Asian airports – along with the cities that they serve – have been redesigned to meet the needs of this rapidly expanding flying public. Thr…
Airport Urbanism
The Shifting Demographics of the Serviced Apartment Industry in South East Asia
Over the past 30 years, serviced apartment complexes have become one of the defining architectural typologies of Asian urbanization. Relatively unknown before the 1980s, these complexes are designed to accommodate foreign business people, knowledge workers and students for a fixed period, typically three to six months. The rapid expansion of serviced apartments testifies to the substantial increase in the number of people who are working, trainin…
What’s missing from this picture? Using visual materials in infrastructure studies
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong and the Center for Asian Studies at the
Emerging infrastructures of low-cost aviation in Southeast Asia
Air traffic in Southeast Asia has grown at an extraordinary rate due to the emergence of low-cost aviation networks that serve a vastly enlarged clientele of air travelers: migrant workers, students, retirees, pilgrims, and tourists on the threshold of the middle class. The article investigates how Southeast Asian airports – along with the cities that they serve – have been redesigned to meet the needs of this rapidly expanding flying public. Thr…
What’s missing from this picture? Using visual materials in infrastructure studies
The Shifting Demographics of the Serviced Apartment Industry in South East Asia
Over the past 30 years, serviced apartment complexes have become one of the defining architectural typologies of Asian urbanization. Relatively unknown before the 1980s, these complexes are designed to accommodate foreign business people, knowledge workers and students for a fixed period, typically three to six months. The rapid expansion of serviced apartments testifies to the substantial increase in the number of people who are working, trainin…
Airport Urbanism
Emerging infrastructures of low-cost aviation in Southeast Asia
Air traffic in Southeast Asia has grown at an extraordinary rate due to the emergence of low-cost aviation networks that serve a vastly enlarged clientele of air travelers: migrant workers, students, retirees, pilgrims, and tourists on the threshold of the middle class. The article investigates how Southeast Asian airports – along with the cities that they serve – have been redesigned to meet the needs of this rapidly expanding flying public. Thr…
Cities and Social Progress
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Infrastructure, Modernity, and the Technologies of Everyday Life
The article shares key insights gleaned from a multiyear collaborative research project on the role of everyday technologies in the making of modern East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present. It explains the three key concepts that have guided the authors’ collective research on technological processes and modernity—East Asia as a region, infrastructure, and the everyday—illustrating each with specific examples drawn from the domains o…
The Transnational Origins of China's Aviation Infrastructure
This article investigates the role of foreign technical experts in developing China's aviation infrastructure from the 1980s to the present. Focusing on a series of training and technical aid programmes, it traces the influx of critical know-how from Europe, Japan and North America during the period of reform and opening up. Through fieldwork conducted at airports in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai – and expert interviews with architects, planner…
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong and the Center for Asian Studies at the
The airport as urban territory
Political science (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works) · Business (3 works) · China (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works)