“Ring up for an appointment”: Empirical & oral evidence of commercial & other freedoms in the heyday of the City

《“Ring up for an appointment”: Empirical & oral evidence of commercial & other freedoms in the heyday of the City》

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作者: Lawrence Wai Chung Lai;Stephen Nicholas Guy Davies;Prudence Leung Kwok Lau;Nixon Tit Hei Leung;Vincent Nok Hang Chan;Mark Hansley Yang Chua

来源: CITIES,Vol.135,Issue1,Article 104232

语言: 英文

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作者单位: Department of Real Estate & Construction, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Department of Cultural & Creative Arts, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;School of Graduate Studies, Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong;Department of Real Estate & Construction, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Department of Cultural & Creative Arts, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;School of Graduate Studies, Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong;Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Department of Arts and Culture Studies, Netherlands;Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, United States of America;Delft University of Technology, Netherlands;Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5, Canada;State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong, China;Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway;École supérieure d'aménagement du territoire et de développement régional (ÉSAD) Laval University Quebec City (QC), Canada;State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;School of Urban Planning & Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China;School of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

摘要: Informed by economic concepts of product competition, this paper uses publicly available and accurate business information on establishment names and addresses obtained from the Yellow Pages of the contemporary Hong Kong telephone book and census socio-economic data backed by oral testimonies, to dispel the myth that the “Kowloon Walled City” was an incarcerated ghetto. The use of this imagery in the title for this City as a built up, politically sensitive zone levelled to the ground to make way for a public Chinese garden shortly before Hong Kong was returned to China, is treated as a form of ‘product differentiation’ in the academic research marketplace. As a contribution to planning theory, the paper uses the City as a show case of how academic branding, through descriptors, creates images of places and offers a countervailing image. Technically, it demonstrates the immense archival value of telephone directories and business chronicles apart from census data as sources of socially significant data for urban studies and informed re-interpretation of subjective imageries of an urban place.

《“Ring up for an appointment”: Empirical &amp; oral evidence of commercial &amp; other freedoms in the heyday of the City》

《“Ring up for an appointment”: Empirical & oral evidence of commercial & other freedoms in the heyday of the City》