Housing Imaginations – Teaching Plan: Feb-Apr 2017

Housing Imaginations – Teaching Plan Hong Kong version (Joseph, Kim-keung Ho) (2017 Feb-April)

Session #	Topics
1 Feb. 1	·      Introduction to Housing Imaginations ·      Briefing on assignment 1 Readings: subject syllabus and assignments 1 and 2 docs; Gregory (1994) Facebook page on housing imaginations Ho (2014a) Lecture 1 details
2 Feb 8	·      The meanings of place I (General) Reading: Cresswell (2009) Lecture 2 details
3 Feb 15	·      The meanings of place II (Hong Kong context) Reading: Ho (2014c; 2016) Lecture 3 details
4 Feb 22	·      The meanings of space (General + Hong Kong context) Reading: Elden (2009) and Kitchin (2009) Ho (2016) Lecture 4 details
5 Mar 1	·      The meanings of home (Hong Kong context) Readings: Easthope (2004) and Ho (2014b; 2016) Lecture 5 details
6 Mar 8	·      Briefing on assignment 2 ·      Specific applications I: social housing (General + HK context) ·      Reading: Marsh and Mullins. (editors) (199; chapter 8: A prize of citizenship? Changing access to social housing) ·      Facebook album on social housing (with videos on HK examples) Lecture 6 details
7 Mar 15	·      Presentation – assignment 1 Lecture 7 details
8 Mar 22	·     Presentation – assignment 1 (plus deadline to submit powerpoint slides for the whole class) Lecture 8 details
9 Mar 29	·     Specific applications II: social exclusion (General and the HK context) Readings: Balchin and Rhoden (2002, chapter 14: social exclusion) A thesis on social exclusion: Chan Mei Ma, Gloria (2003) Facebook album on social exclusion and inclusion Lecture 9 details
10 Apr 5	·       Specific applications III: gender (General + HK context) Readings: Balchin and Rhoden (2002, chapter 17: gender and housing) Facebook page on gender and feminism (with HK examples) Lecture 10 details
11 Apr 11	·      Specific applications IV: homelessness (General) Readings: Balchin and Rhoden (2002; chapter 19: homelessness) Facebook page on homelessness (with HK examples) Lecture 11 details
12 Apr 19	·      Specific applications IV: homelessness (Hong Kong context) Readings: Balchin and Rhoden (2002; chapter 19: homelessness) Facebook page on homelessness (with HK examples) Ho (2015) Deadline to submit assignment 2 Lecture 12 details

Core Readings:

1.    Balchin, P. and M. Rhoden. 2002. Housing Policy: An Introduction. Routledge, London.

2.    Chan, M.H.  2003. “A sociological Analysis of Social Exclusion: The Case of New Immigrations in Hong Kong” M. Phil. Thesis October, HK Polytechnic University (url address: http://ira.lib.polyu.edu.hk/bitstream/10397/3393/2/b21656617_ir.pdf).

3.    Cresswell, T. 2009. “Place” Elsevier. (url address: http://booksite.elsevier.com/brochures/hugy/SampleContent/Place.pdf) [visited at April 17, 2014].

4.    Easthope, H. 2004. “A Place Called Home” Housing, Theory and Society 21(3). Taylor & Francis: 128-138.

5.    Elden, S. 2009. “Space I” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier: 262-267.

6.    Facebook album on social exclusion and inclusion: https://www.facebook.com/josephho33/media_set?set=a.10152367615967090.1073741919.713727089&type=3

7.    Facebook album on social housing: https://www.facebook.com/josephho33/media_set?set=a.10152354799252090.1073741913.713727089&type=3

8.    Facebook page on Gender and Feminism: https://www.facebook.com/literature.gender.feminism/

9.    Facebook page on homelessness: https://www.facebook.com/Literature-on-homelessness-907105879398468/

10. Facebook page on housing imagination: https://www.facebook.com/housing.imagination/

11. Gregory, D. 1994. Geographical Imaginations. Blackwell.

12. Ho, J.K.K. 2014a. “An Endeavor to Establish the subject of Housing Imagination based on Critical Systems Thinking” European Academic Research 2(2), May: 2048-2066.

13. Ho, J.K.K. 2014b. “A Research Note on Home Study in Housing Imagination using Soft Systems Methodology” European Academic Research 2(3), June: 3659-3675.

14. Ho, J.K.K. 2014c. “An examination of the place notion for Housing Imagination study based on Systems Thinking” European Academic Research 2(6), September: 7537-7552.

15. Ho, J.K.K. 2015. “A statistical analysis on Facebook-based questionnaire survey data on homelessness perceptions in Hong Kong” European Academic Research 2(2) February: 14366-14381.

16. Ho, J.K.K. 2016. “An elaboration on the space-place-home (sph) matrix for exploring housing-related problem-situations” European Academic Research 3(12) March: 13166-13185.

17. Ho, J.K.K. 2016. Housing Imagination 2016 ebook (url address: http://josephkkho.blogspot.hk/2016/12/housing-imagination-2016-ebook.html).

18. Ho, J.K.K. 2016. Housing studies 2016 ebook (url address: http://josephkkho.blogspot.hk/2016/12/housing-studies-2016-ebook.html).

19. Internet resource: Facebook group (closed group) on Housing Studies: https://www.facebook.com/groups/built.environment.jkkho/

20. Kitchin, R. 2009. “Space II” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier:  268-275.

21. Marsh, A. and D. Mullins. (editors). 1998. Housing and Public Policy. Open University Press. Buckingham.