Everyday Architecture in Context : Public Markets in Hong Kong 1842-1981

Tsui, Carmen C. M.

ISBN 10: 9882372740 / ISBN 13: 9789882372740

Published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everyday Architecture in Context : Public Markets in Hong Kong 1842-1981
• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9882372740
• ISBN 13: 9789882372740
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city's history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city's changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management? Integrating architecture and history, this book invites readers to go through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive firsthand historical materials. As the readers witness the changes in Hong Kong markets from hawker pitches to classical market halls to clean modernist municipal complexes, the book offers a new perspective of understanding the familiar everyday markets with historical contexts possibly unfamiliar to most, studying markets as a microcosm of the city and a capsule of its history.

About the Author

Carmen C. M. Tsui is an architect and urban historian. She is an associate professor in the Department of History at Lingnan University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, with a specialization in the history of architecture and urbanism. Her research focuses have been on the housing history of China and Hong Kong, heritage conservation and management, urban history, and architectural modernism in Asia. She is the principal investigator of several funded research projects and actively engages with the professional field of built heritage conservation.