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Intellectuals and the production of space in the urban renewal process in Hong Kong and Taipei

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Through two concrete urban renewal cases in Asia, this paper develops a schema of "social engineers-smugglers-experts-critical experts" to differentiate the roles of system-maintaining and system-transforming intellectuals in the production of space. While pro-establishment "social engineers" and "experts" use their "epistemic authority" to produce top-down renewal plans to promote exchange values, "critical experts" outside the government and "smugglers" within the bureaucracy play significant roles in "de-coding" the use values of people's lived spaces. The cases highlight the important roles of system-transforming intellectuals in re-problematizing urban renewal issues and experimenting with alternative policies and plans to restructure space that sustains community building.

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  • Mee-Kam Ng, 2014. "Intellectuals and the production of space in the urban renewal process in Hong Kong and Taipei," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(1), pages 77-92, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rptpxx:v:15:y:2014:i:1:p:77-92
    DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2013.870224
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    1. Sui Tao & Sylvia Y. He, 2021. "Job accessibility and joint household travel: a study of Hong Kong with a particular focus on new town residents," Transportation, Springer, vol. 48(3), pages 1379-1407, June.
    2. Sui Tao & Sylvia Y. He, 0. "Job accessibility and joint household travel: a study of Hong Kong with a particular focus on new town residents," Transportation, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-29.
    3. Lin, Chun Liang & Chan, Edwin H.W. & Chiang, Wei-Hwa, 2022. "Urban renewal governance and manipulation of plot ratios: A comparison between Taipei, Hong Kong and, Singapore," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    4. Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri, 2020. "Insurgent planner: Transgressing the technocratic state of postcolonial Jakarta," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(9), pages 1845-1865, July.

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