Kowloon Walled City: A Case of Land Administration of a Disputed Territory

Lawrence W. C. Lai ()
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Lawrence W. C. Lai: Ronald Coase Centre for Property Rights Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Land, 2024, vol. 13, issue 12, 1-16

Abstract: Informed by hitherto unreported archival materials and the relevant literature, this short paper employs a case study of the post-war Hong Kong Government’s administration of the so-called Kowloon Walled City to elucidate two fundamental principles of land administration in the use of land: (a) certitude of land boundaries and (b) public health and safety. Land administration of this densely populated and growing habitat, being a territory under disputed colonial jurisdiction, was characterised by the meticulous enforcement of an officially adopted boundary and the implementation of a site and service approach for a high-rise settlement by the Colonial Hong Kong Government.

Keywords: disputed territory; principles of land administration; land boundary; public safety; public health; site and service (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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