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

Mee-Kam Ng

Planning Theory & Practice, 2014, vol. 15, issue 1, 77-92

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2013.870224

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