Hong Kong’s Artificial Anti-Archipelago and the Unnaturing of the Natural

Toland, AR

Hong Kong’s Artificial Anti-Archipelago and the Unnaturing of the Natural

Toland, AR

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Publisher:: Hong Kong University Press
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism, 2017, First, pp. 87 - 107
Issue Date:: 2017

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dc.contributor.author	Toland, AR https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-5720	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Sirvaramakrishnan, K	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Rademacher, AM	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:12:47Z
dc.date.issued	2017	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism, 2017, First, pp. 87 - 107	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9789888390601	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/86147
dc.description.abstract	This chapter examines a proposal made by Hong Kong tycoon Gordon Wu to construct an artificial island in Hong Kong’s territorial waters in the late 1980s. His scheme has echoes in the Hong Kong government’s current plan to construct an “East Lantau Metropolis” on an artificial island in a similar same location. A close examination of Wu’s proposition reveals how it served not just commercial ambitions, but also expressed a more complex set of aims playing out through geopolitical intrigue and late-colonial domestic politics, as well as maneuverings for private dominance of urban and regional infrastructure. At an even more ulterior level, these activities additionally attempted an unconscious restructuring of the intercultural formations of nature(s) and landscape as they have emerged in Hong Kong.	en_US
dc.publisher	Hong Kong University Press	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism	en_US
dc.title	Hong Kong’s Artificial Anti-Archipelago and the Unnaturing of the Natural	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.location	Hong Kong	en_US
utslib.for	120107 Landscape Architecture	en_US
utslib.citation.edition	First	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
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Abstract:

This chapter examines a proposal made by Hong Kong tycoon Gordon Wu to construct an artificial island in Hong Kong’s territorial waters in the late 1980s. His scheme has echoes in the Hong Kong government’s current plan to construct an “East Lantau Metropolis” on an artificial island in a similar same location. A close examination of Wu’s proposition reveals how it served not just commercial ambitions, but also expressed a more complex set of aims playing out through geopolitical intrigue and late-colonial domestic politics, as well as maneuverings for private dominance of urban and regional infrastructure. At an even more ulterior level, these activities additionally attempted an unconscious restructuring of the intercultural formations of nature(s) and landscape as they have emerged in Hong Kong.

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