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Abstract
Wanchai, situated east of the Central Business District of Hong Kong, Asia’s World City, is a highly accessible and mixed community with old and new buildings constructed over the years through successive waves of reclamation. The less well-off population in the District was hard hit by the Asian Financial crisis in the late 1990s, followed by another wave of redevelopment as the economy recovered. This paper examines how the local stakeholders have worked together to resist wholesale redevelopment (‘enclosure’) as well as the interrelated practices of ‘recommoning’. With the help of a local charity, St James Settlement (set up in 1949 modelled after the Settlement Movement in UK), local residents have succeeded in saving a heritage building cluster, the Blue House, and are using it as a hub to further develop their community and rebuild the socio-economic network within a rapidly gentrifying area.
湾仔位于被称为亚洲国际都会的香港中央商务区东面,是一个交通便利的混合社区,经过多年的填海工程,新老建筑相继落成。上世纪90年代末,由于亚洲金融危机,香港的贫困人口受到了沉重打击。随着经济复苏,香港又出现了一波重建潮。本文探讨了当地利益相关者如何共同抵制大规模再开发(“圈地”)以及相互关联的“推荐”实践。在当地慈善机构St James Settlement(以英国殖民运动为蓝本,于1949年成立)的帮助下,当地居民成功地拯救了一个传统建筑群——Blue House,并将其作为一个中心,进一步发展他们的社区,并在一个快速中产阶级化的地区重建社会经济网络。
期刊介绍:
Local Economy is a peer-reviewed journal operating as an interdisciplinary forum for the critical review of policy developments in the broad area of local economic development and urban regeneration. It seeks not only to publish analysis and critique but also to disseminate innovative practice. One particular concern is with grassroots community economic development strategies and the work of voluntary organisations, considered within the context of wider social, political and economic change.