Adrienne La Grange
Biographic Data
| ID | 4282263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrienne La Grange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrienne |
| FAMILY NAME | La Grange |
| SIGNATURE | LA GRANGE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Redeveloping the Global City: Institutional and Built Form Influences — Three Hong Kong Case Studies
This study investigates the impact of institution and built form on trends to gentrification in Hong Kong, investigating both public and private and larger and smaller development projects. It identifies three models of gentrification, the “black hole” model, suggesting that very large, public sector projects may have little trickle-down effect; the “happy days” model, which provides needed residential and commercial space for the post-industrial…
State-led gentrification in Hong Kong
The specificity of Hong Kong’s gentrification trajectory reflects its urban morphology, political institutions, and social and economic structure. While continuously renewing itself economically, much of the city’s inner urban area building stock is old and functionally obsolete, whilst nevertheless providing affordable, well-located housing for lower-income and disadvantaged groups and small-scale commercial clusters. Constrained redevelopment i…
Hong Kong's Gating Machine
Scholars have identified 'gating machines' or 'gating coalitions' that promote gated communities. Hong Kong's high-rise housing estates in the private sector are extremely gated. Evidence presented in this paper suggests the proposition that public ownership of land, Hong Kong's land leasehold system and the government's fiscal interest in generating maximum revenue from land sales play a pivotal role in explaining gatedness. The big developers p…
Neighbourhood and Class: A Study of Three Neighbourhoods in Hong Kong
This paper investigates the relationship between neighbourhood cohesion and organisation and class in Hong Kong. It draws on a survey of 1200 face-to-face interviews in an up-market private housing estate on Hong Kong Island, a large, neither rich nor poor public housing estate in the New Territories and a mixed-use, low-income inner-city neighbourhood in Kowloon. Four indexes measure interneighbourhood and intraneighbourhood differences—namely, …
Making Space: Residential Trajectories in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a city with very high densities and low per capita space standards, given its wealth. Most people live in very small apartments in high-rise buildings. Drawing on a survey of more than 2,000 interviewees, this study explores household mobility and changes in consumption of residential space in Hong Kong. Space standards have increased for most households, although increases are small in absolute terms. Distinct from much of the inter…
Cohort Trajectories in Hong Kong's Housing System: 1981–2001
A household's progression through a housing system depends not just on the current social, economic and policy context but also on past housing experiences and circumstances. Different birth cohorts, because of their location in a specific socio-economic and policy environment, may have distinct residential trajectories. Five waves of Hong Kong Census data are used to trace tenure change of different birth cohort groups from 1981 to 2001. The pap…
Commodification and Urban Development: A Case Study of Taiwan
This paper aims to identify the processes of commodification of land and housing in Taiwan during the era of rapid economic development since the Second World War. On paper, Taiwan has a quite extraordinarily socialistic philosophy of landownership, based on the teachings of Sun Yat-sen and his doctrine of equalization of land rights. However, there is a very large discrepancy between policy and practice and as a consequence urban development and…
Globalization, de-industrialization and Hong Kong's private rental sector
Shifts along the Decommodification-Commodification Continuum: Housing Delivery and State Accumulation in Hong Kong
This paper engages with the discourse about commodification of housing in an Asian context and presents a methodology to explore shifts in the delivery of housing along the decommodification-commodification continuum. It reviews the extent to which the Hong Kong state has articulated an understanding of a continuum through its actions in the public and private housing sectors, and how it has acted developmentally in manipulating shifts along the …
The commodification of land and housing: The case of South Korea
The developmentalist state in South East Asia has played an important role in guiding and promoting economic growth. Although an implicit theme of much of the discourse is the role of the state in controlling the factors of production, this is not located within the decommodification/commodification debate. Proceeding from the premise that underlies much of economic theory, namely that land values at a time reflect the residual (or surplus) of ec…
Hong Kong as a Global City? Social Distance and Spatial Differentiation
This paper draws on on-going work on Hong Kong's socio-spatial structure to explore the extent to which it fits the dominant image of the global city. While there is a considerable literature on Hong Kong's changing social structure, there is relatively little on the spatial dimensions of social difference and division. The paper situates the available commentaries and analyses of Hong Kong's income, class and employment structure within the glob…
Economic Transformation and Public Housing Reform in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's economic development has always been closely tied to events outside its borders. and in particular developments in Mainland China. The large scale provision of public rental housing occurred in tandem with its transformation from an entrepot economy to a manufacturing economy. The view has been persuasively presented that indeed its economic development and public housing programme are related. Public housing remained important, altho…
Private Rental Housing in Hong Kong
This paper examines selected aspects of housing policy and its influence on private rental housing in Hong Kong. Its ambitions are modest, in part because so little research has been conducted on the sector, as a consequence of the small size of the sector as well as the concentration of socio-political, economic and policy analyses on the other major housing sectors, namely public renting and home ownership. It is argued that a fundamental funct…
Poverty and single elders in Hong Kong
This paper proposes a methodology for measuring poverty among people aged 60 years or more and living alone in Hong Kong. It uses a lifestyle approach and is based on an index of subjective perceptions of deprivation consisting of 79 indicators. These cover the main expenditure categories of single elders in Hong Kong: housing, food, clothing, durable goods, fuel and water, entertainment and social activities, medical care and transport. We tenta…
Neighbourhood in a High Rise, High Density City: Some Observations on Contemporary Hong Kong
Most of the contemporary literature on the neighbourhood comes from US or European sources where there are sharp contrasts with East Asian cities in terms of the physical form, residential densities and in relation to ideas of community and kinship. This paper reports on a study carried out in Hong Kong which was designed to explore the extent to which western preoccupations with neighbourhood resonate in a high rise, high density Chinese city. A…
From Confucius to the Post-Industrial State: Public Services for the Single Elderly in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has experienced rapid economic development and social change over the last three decades. Its society is not only aging but differentiating rapidly as its economy matures and processes of globalisation intensify. While economic development has provided opportunities for many, a significant minority live in poverty. This paper explores the extent to which social policy is adapting to meet the needs of one disadvantaged group, the low inc…
Social Belonging, Social Capital and the Promotion of Home Ownership: A Case Study of Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Government is vigorously promoting home ownership, a major rationale being to increase the community's sense of belonging and reduce the rate of emigration. This paper evaluates whether home owners in Hong Kong have a higher sense of social belonging than renters and finds that tenure status is a spurious independent variable in assessing respondents' sense of belonging to Hong Kong. Logistic regression analysis suggests that the si…
Aging in a tiger welfare regime: The single elderly in Hong Kong
Ontology, Policy and the Market: Trends to Home-ownership in Hong Kong
An important trend in housing delivery internationally has been rising rates of home-ownership. In Hong Kong, owner-occupation has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, and this is expected to continue. This paper seeks to account for trends to home-ownership in Hong Kong. It is proposed that two principal factors account for rates of home-ownership internationally: the interaction and combined outcome of housing affordability and household…
Privatizing Public Housing in the Welfare Regime of a Tiger Economy: A Case Study of Hong Kong
This paper aims to locate the experience of privatizing public housing in the welfare regime of a tiger economy; Hong Kong. This welfare regime type is perhaps encapsulated by its emphasis on economic growth and the provision of social infrastructure, but with little commitment to the idea of transfer payments. Although Hong Kong is a tiger economy, the most fruitful framework for assessing the privatization policy is the factors which explain th…
Privatising Public Housing in Hong Kong: Its Impact on Equity
Three processes are examined to assess the impact on equity of policies to privatise public housing in Hong Kong. These are changes in the inter-sectoral distribution of subsidies, changes in the quality and quantity of public rental housing, and changes in access to public housing. It is found that housing subsidies have remained concentrated in the public rental sector, and the quantity, quality and amenity of housing in this sector has actuall…
Hong Kong as a Global City? Social Distance and Spatial Differentiation
This paper draws on on-going work on Hong Kong's socio-spatial structure to explore the extent to which it fits the dominant image of the global city. While there is a considerable literature on Hong Kong's changing social structure, there is relatively little on the spatial dimensions of social difference and division. The paper situates the available commentaries and analyses of Hong Kong's income, class and employment structure within the glob…
Neighbourhood in a High Rise, High Density City: Some Observations on Contemporary Hong Kong
Most of the contemporary literature on the neighbourhood comes from US or European sources where there are sharp contrasts with East Asian cities in terms of the physical form, residential densities and in relation to ideas of community and kinship. This paper reports on a study carried out in Hong Kong which was designed to explore the extent to which western preoccupations with neighbourhood resonate in a high rise, high density Chinese city. A…
State-led gentrification in Hong Kong
The specificity of Hong Kong’s gentrification trajectory reflects its urban morphology, political institutions, and social and economic structure. While continuously renewing itself economically, much of the city’s inner urban area building stock is old and functionally obsolete, whilst nevertheless providing affordable, well-located housing for lower-income and disadvantaged groups and small-scale commercial clusters. Constrained redevelopment i…
The commodification of land and housing: The case of South Korea
The developmentalist state in South East Asia has played an important role in guiding and promoting economic growth. Although an implicit theme of much of the discourse is the role of the state in controlling the factors of production, this is not located within the decommodification/commodification debate. Proceeding from the premise that underlies much of economic theory, namely that land values at a time reflect the residual (or surplus) of ec…
Private Rental Housing in Hong Kong
This paper examines selected aspects of housing policy and its influence on private rental housing in Hong Kong. Its ambitions are modest, in part because so little research has been conducted on the sector, as a consequence of the small size of the sector as well as the concentration of socio-political, economic and policy analyses on the other major housing sectors, namely public renting and home ownership. It is argued that a fundamental funct…
Privatising Public Housing in Hong Kong: Its Impact on Equity
Three processes are examined to assess the impact on equity of policies to privatise public housing in Hong Kong. These are changes in the inter-sectoral distribution of subsidies, changes in the quality and quantity of public rental housing, and changes in access to public housing. It is found that housing subsidies have remained concentrated in the public rental sector, and the quantity, quality and amenity of housing in this sector has actuall…
Social Belonging, Social Capital and the Promotion of Home Ownership: A Case Study of Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Government is vigorously promoting home ownership, a major rationale being to increase the community's sense of belonging and reduce the rate of emigration. This paper evaluates whether home owners in Hong Kong have a higher sense of social belonging than renters and finds that tenure status is a spurious independent variable in assessing respondents' sense of belonging to Hong Kong. Logistic regression analysis suggests that the si…
Hong Kong's Gating Machine
Scholars have identified 'gating machines' or 'gating coalitions' that promote gated communities. Hong Kong's high-rise housing estates in the private sector are extremely gated. Evidence presented in this paper suggests the proposition that public ownership of land, Hong Kong's land leasehold system and the government's fiscal interest in generating maximum revenue from land sales play a pivotal role in explaining gatedness. The big developers p…
Making Space: Residential Trajectories in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a city with very high densities and low per capita space standards, given its wealth. Most people live in very small apartments in high-rise buildings. Drawing on a survey of more than 2,000 interviewees, this study explores household mobility and changes in consumption of residential space in Hong Kong. Space standards have increased for most households, although increases are small in absolute terms. Distinct from much of the inter…
Globalization, de-industrialization and Hong Kong's private rental sector
Ontology, Policy and the Market: Trends to Home-ownership in Hong Kong
An important trend in housing delivery internationally has been rising rates of home-ownership. In Hong Kong, owner-occupation has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, and this is expected to continue. This paper seeks to account for trends to home-ownership in Hong Kong. It is proposed that two principal factors account for rates of home-ownership internationally: the interaction and combined outcome of housing affordability and household…
Neighbourhood and Class: A Study of Three Neighbourhoods in Hong Kong
This paper investigates the relationship between neighbourhood cohesion and organisation and class in Hong Kong. It draws on a survey of 1200 face-to-face interviews in an up-market private housing estate on Hong Kong Island, a large, neither rich nor poor public housing estate in the New Territories and a mixed-use, low-income inner-city neighbourhood in Kowloon. Four indexes measure interneighbourhood and intraneighbourhood differences—namely, …
Cohort Trajectories in Hong Kong's Housing System: 1981–2001
A household's progression through a housing system depends not just on the current social, economic and policy context but also on past housing experiences and circumstances. Different birth cohorts, because of their location in a specific socio-economic and policy environment, may have distinct residential trajectories. Five waves of Hong Kong Census data are used to trace tenure change of different birth cohort groups from 1981 to 2001. The pap…
Shifts along the Decommodification-Commodification Continuum: Housing Delivery and State Accumulation in Hong Kong
This paper engages with the discourse about commodification of housing in an Asian context and presents a methodology to explore shifts in the delivery of housing along the decommodification-commodification continuum. It reviews the extent to which the Hong Kong state has articulated an understanding of a continuum through its actions in the public and private housing sectors, and how it has acted developmentally in manipulating shifts along the …
Poverty and single elders in Hong Kong
This paper proposes a methodology for measuring poverty among people aged 60 years or more and living alone in Hong Kong. It uses a lifestyle approach and is based on an index of subjective perceptions of deprivation consisting of 79 indicators. These cover the main expenditure categories of single elders in Hong Kong: housing, food, clothing, durable goods, fuel and water, entertainment and social activities, medical care and transport. We tenta…
Privatizing Public Housing in the Welfare Regime of a Tiger Economy: A Case Study of Hong Kong
This paper aims to locate the experience of privatizing public housing in the welfare regime of a tiger economy; Hong Kong. This welfare regime type is perhaps encapsulated by its emphasis on economic growth and the provision of social infrastructure, but with little commitment to the idea of transfer payments. Although Hong Kong is a tiger economy, the most fruitful framework for assessing the privatization policy is the factors which explain th…
Commodification and Urban Development: A Case Study of Taiwan
This paper aims to identify the processes of commodification of land and housing in Taiwan during the era of rapid economic development since the Second World War. On paper, Taiwan has a quite extraordinarily socialistic philosophy of landownership, based on the teachings of Sun Yat-sen and his doctrine of equalization of land rights. However, there is a very large discrepancy between policy and practice and as a consequence urban development and…
Economic Transformation and Public Housing Reform in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's economic development has always been closely tied to events outside its borders. and in particular developments in Mainland China. The large scale provision of public rental housing occurred in tandem with its transformation from an entrepot economy to a manufacturing economy. The view has been persuasively presented that indeed its economic development and public housing programme are related. Public housing remained important, altho…
From Confucius to the Post-Industrial State: Public Services for the Single Elderly in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has experienced rapid economic development and social change over the last three decades. Its society is not only aging but differentiating rapidly as its economy matures and processes of globalisation intensify. While economic development has provided opportunities for many, a significant minority live in poverty. This paper explores the extent to which social policy is adapting to meet the needs of one disadvantaged group, the low inc…
Aging in a tiger welfare regime: The single elderly in Hong Kong
Privatising Public Housing in Hong Kong: Its Impact on Equity
Three processes are examined to assess the impact on equity of policies to privatise public housing in Hong Kong. These are changes in the inter-sectoral distribution of subsidies, changes in the quality and quantity of public rental housing, and changes in access to public housing. It is found that housing subsidies have remained concentrated in the public rental sector, and the quantity, quality and amenity of housing in this sector has actuall…
Privatizing Public Housing in the Welfare Regime of a Tiger Economy: A Case Study of Hong Kong
This paper aims to locate the experience of privatizing public housing in the welfare regime of a tiger economy; Hong Kong. This welfare regime type is perhaps encapsulated by its emphasis on economic growth and the provision of social infrastructure, but with little commitment to the idea of transfer payments. Although Hong Kong is a tiger economy, the most fruitful framework for assessing the privatization policy is the factors which explain th…
Ontology, Policy and the Market: Trends to Home-ownership in Hong Kong
An important trend in housing delivery internationally has been rising rates of home-ownership. In Hong Kong, owner-occupation has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, and this is expected to continue. This paper seeks to account for trends to home-ownership in Hong Kong. It is proposed that two principal factors account for rates of home-ownership internationally: the interaction and combined outcome of housing affordability and household…
From Confucius to the Post-Industrial State: Public Services for the Single Elderly in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has experienced rapid economic development and social change over the last three decades. Its society is not only aging but differentiating rapidly as its economy matures and processes of globalisation intensify. While economic development has provided opportunities for many, a significant minority live in poverty. This paper explores the extent to which social policy is adapting to meet the needs of one disadvantaged group, the low inc…
Social Belonging, Social Capital and the Promotion of Home Ownership: A Case Study of Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Government is vigorously promoting home ownership, a major rationale being to increase the community's sense of belonging and reduce the rate of emigration. This paper evaluates whether home owners in Hong Kong have a higher sense of social belonging than renters and finds that tenure status is a spurious independent variable in assessing respondents' sense of belonging to Hong Kong. Logistic regression analysis suggests that the si…
Aging in a tiger welfare regime: The single elderly in Hong Kong
Private Rental Housing in Hong Kong
This paper examines selected aspects of housing policy and its influence on private rental housing in Hong Kong. Its ambitions are modest, in part because so little research has been conducted on the sector, as a consequence of the small size of the sector as well as the concentration of socio-political, economic and policy analyses on the other major housing sectors, namely public renting and home ownership. It is argued that a fundamental funct…
Poverty and single elders in Hong Kong
This paper proposes a methodology for measuring poverty among people aged 60 years or more and living alone in Hong Kong. It uses a lifestyle approach and is based on an index of subjective perceptions of deprivation consisting of 79 indicators. These cover the main expenditure categories of single elders in Hong Kong: housing, food, clothing, durable goods, fuel and water, entertainment and social activities, medical care and transport. We tenta…
Neighbourhood in a High Rise, High Density City: Some Observations on Contemporary Hong Kong
Most of the contemporary literature on the neighbourhood comes from US or European sources where there are sharp contrasts with East Asian cities in terms of the physical form, residential densities and in relation to ideas of community and kinship. This paper reports on a study carried out in Hong Kong which was designed to explore the extent to which western preoccupations with neighbourhood resonate in a high rise, high density Chinese city. A…
Economic Transformation and Public Housing Reform in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's economic development has always been closely tied to events outside its borders. and in particular developments in Mainland China. The large scale provision of public rental housing occurred in tandem with its transformation from an entrepot economy to a manufacturing economy. The view has been persuasively presented that indeed its economic development and public housing programme are related. Public housing remained important, altho…
The commodification of land and housing: The case of South Korea
The developmentalist state in South East Asia has played an important role in guiding and promoting economic growth. Although an implicit theme of much of the discourse is the role of the state in controlling the factors of production, this is not located within the decommodification/commodification debate. Proceeding from the premise that underlies much of economic theory, namely that land values at a time reflect the residual (or surplus) of ec…
Hong Kong as a Global City? Social Distance and Spatial Differentiation
This paper draws on on-going work on Hong Kong's socio-spatial structure to explore the extent to which it fits the dominant image of the global city. While there is a considerable literature on Hong Kong's changing social structure, there is relatively little on the spatial dimensions of social difference and division. The paper situates the available commentaries and analyses of Hong Kong's income, class and employment structure within the glob…
Shifts along the Decommodification-Commodification Continuum: Housing Delivery and State Accumulation in Hong Kong
This paper engages with the discourse about commodification of housing in an Asian context and presents a methodology to explore shifts in the delivery of housing along the decommodification-commodification continuum. It reviews the extent to which the Hong Kong state has articulated an understanding of a continuum through its actions in the public and private housing sectors, and how it has acted developmentally in manipulating shifts along the …
Commodification and Urban Development: A Case Study of Taiwan
This paper aims to identify the processes of commodification of land and housing in Taiwan during the era of rapid economic development since the Second World War. On paper, Taiwan has a quite extraordinarily socialistic philosophy of landownership, based on the teachings of Sun Yat-sen and his doctrine of equalization of land rights. However, there is a very large discrepancy between policy and practice and as a consequence urban development and…
Globalization, de-industrialization and Hong Kong's private rental sector
Cohort Trajectories in Hong Kong's Housing System: 1981–2001
A household's progression through a housing system depends not just on the current social, economic and policy context but also on past housing experiences and circumstances. Different birth cohorts, because of their location in a specific socio-economic and policy environment, may have distinct residential trajectories. Five waves of Hong Kong Census data are used to trace tenure change of different birth cohort groups from 1981 to 2001. The pap…
Making Space: Residential Trajectories in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a city with very high densities and low per capita space standards, given its wealth. Most people live in very small apartments in high-rise buildings. Drawing on a survey of more than 2,000 interviewees, this study explores household mobility and changes in consumption of residential space in Hong Kong. Space standards have increased for most households, although increases are small in absolute terms. Distinct from much of the inter…
Neighbourhood and Class: A Study of Three Neighbourhoods in Hong Kong
This paper investigates the relationship between neighbourhood cohesion and organisation and class in Hong Kong. It draws on a survey of 1200 face-to-face interviews in an up-market private housing estate on Hong Kong Island, a large, neither rich nor poor public housing estate in the New Territories and a mixed-use, low-income inner-city neighbourhood in Kowloon. Four indexes measure interneighbourhood and intraneighbourhood differences—namely, …
Hong Kong's Gating Machine
Scholars have identified 'gating machines' or 'gating coalitions' that promote gated communities. Hong Kong's high-rise housing estates in the private sector are extremely gated. Evidence presented in this paper suggests the proposition that public ownership of land, Hong Kong's land leasehold system and the government's fiscal interest in generating maximum revenue from land sales play a pivotal role in explaining gatedness. The big developers p…
Redeveloping the Global City: Institutional and Built Form Influences — Three Hong Kong Case Studies
This study investigates the impact of institution and built form on trends to gentrification in Hong Kong, investigating both public and private and larger and smaller development projects. It identifies three models of gentrification, the “black hole” model, suggesting that very large, public sector projects may have little trickle-down effect; the “happy days” model, which provides needed residential and commercial space for the post-industrial…
State-led gentrification in Hong Kong
The specificity of Hong Kong’s gentrification trajectory reflects its urban morphology, political institutions, and social and economic structure. While continuously renewing itself economically, much of the city’s inner urban area building stock is old and functionally obsolete, whilst nevertheless providing affordable, well-located housing for lower-income and disadvantaged groups and small-scale commercial clusters. Constrained redevelopment i…
Economics (18 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Market economy (10 works) · Economy (8 works) · Government (linguistics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works)