Housing imagination lecture 4

Housing imagination lecture 4

                                                                                           [back to teaching plan]

Key themes: 

The meanings of space (General + Hong Kong context)

Reading: Elden (2009) and Kitchin (2009)

Ho (2016)

Details: My article on  space and space-place-home matrix (article 1); space-place-home matrix (article 2); HI steps to study a newspaper article on gentrification.

On metaphorical space: an example:

"For the Japanese, then, Korea has always been the “dagger pointed at the heart” of Japan" (article).


Some useful videos to study: on social relations; the space notion in human geography; neo-liberalism; social construction of reality. A slide on social construction of reality; brief description of social space.

Class exercise: 1. To study HK gentrification newspaper articles with the notion of space.
                          2. Subdivided flats (video 1) (video 2): for discussion with the notion of space.
                          3. Space-saving practices (HK) (video)
                          4. Inter-relatedness of spatial and social phenomena (a case study - 2000 feet apartment).
                          5. Space and lifestyle (video)


Class question for discussion: "HI exercise: interpret the HI case (2000 feet apartment) in terms of space and indicates some general HI issues in HK from your review"

Lecture notes

Note 1

Note 2

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