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100			_aNg, Mee Kam _953850
245			_aTransformative urbanism and reproblematising land scarcity in Hong Kong/ _cMee Kam Ng
260			_aLondon: _bSage, _c2020.
300			_aVol 57, issue 7, 2020: (1452–1468 p.)
520			_aAn ecological and humane urbanism is required to combat resource degradation and socio-economic polarisation. UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda calls for a paradigm shift to ‘leave no one, no place and no ecology behind’ through sustainable development. However, this article argues that a ‘sustainability fix’, while necessary, is insufficient to counter the hegemonic growth-orientated culture and it is important to re-embed economic activities in ethical socio-ecological relationships for people and place well-being. These require critical scholarship to reproblematise issues and present prescriptive approaches for resolving them. Reproblematisation of Hong Kong’s alleged land scarcity problem reveals a property-dominant urban-biased political economy that sustains a high land price policy through suppressing development of massive rural land resources, resulting in ecological and socio-spatial disparities. Reimagining the development of rural Hong Kong based on the principles of nature conservation and place-making for conviviality and human flourishing could be a potential pathway towards a transformative urbanism.
773	0		_08843 _916581 _dLondon Sage Publications Ltd. 1964 _tUrban studies _x0042-0980
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018800399
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