The haunted city: Hong Kong and its urban others in the postcolonial era
The haunted city: Hong Kong and its urban others in the postcolonial era
This chapter discusses cities being haunted by other cities. It talks about Hong Kong and its urban others in the postcolonial era. By using the word ‘haunted’, the chapter wishes to convey the sense of other cities as always uncomfortably present, even when a city might wish to exorcise all trace of them, and to signal that the relation with other cities can, on occasion at least, be a problematic one. Perhaps not all cities are haunted by others, but it is suspected that all cities with the ambition to be thought of as ‘world cities’ are, as well as all cities going through significant phases of their physical or socio-political development. Perhaps such haunting is more common now than in the past, due to the increasing pace of globalization and the increasing awareness of other cities, or at least of their images.
Keywords: Hong Kong, postcolonial era, world cities, socio-political development, globalization
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