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The Tangible and Intangible Challenges in Linking the Marginal with the Central: ‘All Together for a Street Event’

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This chapter highlights a particular character of street life by focusing on a special street event on Chater Road in the centre of Hong Kong. A social design approach, along with ethnographic fieldwork and participatory design methodology, is used to assess the social issues of this complex urban environment from a design perspective.

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Choi, H.S. (2019). The Tangible and Intangible Challenges in Linking the Marginal with the Central: ‘All Together for a Street Event’. In: Urban Marginality in Hong Kong's Global Diaspora. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04642-2_5

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