Europe and the people without planning
Reconsidering British interventions in colonial Hong Kong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21406363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yasminah Beebeejaun (0000-0003-4744-0751, Yasminah Beebeejaun is an Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0NN;., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 547-566 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Town Planning Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-0020 • E-ISSN: 1478-341X |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/tpr.2022.2 |
| OpenAlex | W4285663228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
The commissioning of a plan by Patrick Abercrombie for British Hong Kong in 1947 is the entry point to explore claims of ‘benevolent colonialism’. Through an engagement with British colonial attitudes towards the majority Chinese population, we can critically re-evaluate claims that British planning brought a more enlightened form of urbanism. Instead, we find colonial inaction and a marked difference in housing and development standards based largely on racial distinctions between the perceived needs of European and Chinese inhabitants. By situating planning efforts in Hong Kong within the racial hierarchies of empire, we can examine how imperial power bolstered British planning
Archaeology · British Empire · China · Colonialism · Political science · Population · Power (physics) · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · Urbanism · Architecture · Demography · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Urban Planning and Governance
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Africa as a Living Laboratory
Hong Kong
Provincializing Europe
The Location of Culture
Decolonising cities of the global South in the classroom and beyond
Challenges, opportunities and legacies
Race, Law, and "The Chinese Puzzle" in Imperial Britain
Europeans, modern urban planning and the acculturation of ‘racial others’
Praxis in the Time of Empire
Indigenous recognition in state-based planning systems
Imagining and mapping the end of an empire
Colonial History, Indigenous Villagers’ Rights, and Rural Land Use
Postcolonial cities
Spaces of Exclusion
Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning
Rethinking Modernity
Beyond Gentrification
Tuberculosis, Housing and the Colonial State
Along the Archival Grain
Govern-Mentality' Transition
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |