Industrialisation and Space in the Development of Kwun Tong Industrial Area

Mizuoka, Fujio

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Fujio Mizuoka³

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The production of the built environment as the physical foundation of laissez-faire was essential for solving dialectics of space and people towards sustenance of the colony of Hong Kong, through capital accumulation and ethnic integration.

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1.
Harvey D., The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, p. 155.
2.
‘Urban Expansion into the New Territories, 70-1 in <1/5282/56>, p. 2.
3.
M 117 in <1/5282/56 > (emphasis mine).
4.
Chiu, S. W. K., ‘Unravelling Hong Kong’s exceptionalism: the politics of laissez-faire in the industrial takeoff’, Political Power and Social Theory, 10(231), 1996, p. 239.
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8 in <11/4802/55I > .
6.
108 in <11/4802/55I > .
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107 in <11/ 4802/55I > .
8.
Scott, Metropolis: From Division of Labor to Urban Form, University of California Press, 1988, p. 233.
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<4602/48 > .
10.
124-1 in <1/6/3091/48 III > .
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3 in <11/3181/52 > (emphasis original).
12.
Paras. 14, 16 and 18 of 127 in <1/6/3091/48 III > .
13.
6-1 in <11/3181/52 > .
14.
SCMP, 16 July 1953.
15.
M3 in <11/3181/52 > .
16.
M8 in <11/3281/52 > .
17.
Bristow, 1989, op. cit., p. 54.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Memorandum for Executive Council, XCC 39, for discussion on 24th May, 1955, 75 in <2/5282/53I > .
20.
Harvey, D., The Limits to Capital, 1982, University of Chicago Press, pp. 362–366.
21.
M9 in <11/3181/52 > (emphasis original).
22.
M19 of <11/3181/52 > .
23.
<11/5282/53I > .
24.
33 in <11/3181/52 > .
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34 in <11/3181/52 > .
26.
Scott, I., Political Change and the Crisis of Legitimacy in Hong Kong, University of Hawaii Press, 1989, p. 68.
27.
7 in <11/3181/52 > .
28.
<2/5282/53 I > .
29.
Bristow, 1989, op. cit., p. 56.
30.
45 in <2/5282/53 I > .
31.
45 in <2/5282/53 I > .
32.
M69 in <2/5282/53 I > .
33.
Harvey, Limits to Capital, op. cit., pp. 362–366.
34.
43 in <2/5282/53I > .
35.
Minutes of the Working Group Committee for 6 September 1954, 43 in <2/5282/53 I > .
36.
75 in <2/5282/53 I > .
37.
Hong Kong Hansard, 1955 Session, 2 March 1955, p. 37.
38.
op. cit., p. 89 (emphasis mine).
39.
75-3 in <2/5282/53 I > (emphasis original).
40.
Memorandum for Executive Council XCC 41, For discussion on 14th June, 1955.
41.
Hong Kong Standard, 29 September 1955.
42.
Harvey, Limits to Capital, op. cit., p. 369.
43.
The Letter submitted by H. A. Angus to the Colonial Secretary on 27 January 1956, 23 in <2/5282.53 II > .
44.
‘Report of the Working Committee on the New Industrial Area at Kun Tong’, Para. 18 in 40-2 of <2/5282/53II > (emphasis mine).
45.
op. cit., Para 37. On this statement, the Working Committee’s draft manuscript even specifically mentioned the ratio in that ‘only half the number of sites applied for should be provided, in order to stimulate competition at auction” (23-2 of <2/5282/53 II>, emphasis mine).
46.
op. cit., Para 38.
47.
op. cit., Para 26.
48.
38 in <2/5282/53 III>.
49.
20 in <2/5282/53 III>.
50.
This point is clearly expressed in the following statement by Mr. Potter, Acting Surveyor-General and Commissioner of Crown Lands. ‘As has been my experience elsewhere the larger sites do not appear to be so popular nor command so high a price as the smaller ones’ (20 in <2/5282/53 III>). From this experience of his own, Potter proposed that the land divisions at Kwun Tong should be subdivided even further.
51.
56 in <2/5282/53 III > .
52.
III(1) of the Minute of Kun Tong Advisory Committee, 15 January 1957, in <2/5282/53 III > (emphasis mine).
53.
98 in <2/5282/53 III > .
54.
SCMP, 22 May 1957.
55.
The standard market value for a block with an area of 10,000 sq. ft. was HK$20.
56.
224 in <2/5282/53III > .
57.
134 in <2/5282/53 III > .
58.
213 of <2/5282/53 III > .
59.
154 of <2/5282/53 III > .
60.
159 in <2/5282/53 III > .
61.
205 in <2/5282/53 III > .
62.
19 in <2/4802/55I > .
63.
184 in <2/5282/53III > (emphasis mine).
64.
224 in <2/5282/53 III>.
65.
SCMP, 22 May 1957.
66.
SCMP, 22 May, 1957.
67.
224 in <2/5282/53 III > .
68.
9 in <3/5282/58 > .
69.
Carroll, J. M. ed., Edge of empires: Chinese elites and British colonials in Hong Kong, HKU Press., 2007, p. 13.
70.
<1/5282/56 > (emphasis mine).

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Mizuoka, F. (2018). Industrialisation and Space in the Development of Kwun Tong Industrial Area. In: Contrived Laissez-Faireism. The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69793-2_5

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