Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

“Hong Kong Public Housing offers a bold and novel contribution by adopting a bi-modal lens, planning policy and architecture, to reinterpret the city’s public housing history… Glendinning’s fine-grained analyses, which deconstruct myths portraying Hong Kong’s public housing story as a ‘miracle’ simply born from the devastating 1953 Shek Kip Mei fire or as an adjunct to the city’s industrialization and rise as an Asian Tiger, make the book a compelling a read… Glendinning’s balanced critique of both colonial and post-handover housing policies stands out as exemplary.”Luk, Y. X. C. (2025). Hong Kong Public Housing: An Architectural and Policy History: by Miles Glendinning, Oxfordshire and New York, Routledge, 2024, 517 pp., £94.50 (e-book), £105.00 (hardback). Planning Perspectives, 40(5), 1416–1418. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2548077

• Introduction - A mirror of identity? Public housing in Hong KongPART 1: TOWARDS A PUBLIC HOUSING DRIVEChapter 11945-1953: Laying the foundationsChapter 21954-1957: Shek Kip Mei and the Resettlement revolutionChapter 31958-1964: Robin Black and incremental reformChapter 41964-1971: Trench’s governorship – pragmatism and tentative reformismPART 2: THE MACLEHOSE YEARSChapter 51971-1973: Building a ‘model city’? The MacLehose Revolution Chapter 61973-1976: Utopia on hold - from crisis management to programme planning Chapter 7MacLehose’s ‘brainchild’: The Home Ownership Scheme Chapter 81977-1982: Consolidating the revolutionPART 3: COUNTDOWN TO THE HANDOVERChapter 91982-1986: Youde’s governorship – from sovereignty to stabilisationChapter 101987-1992: The Wilson years - accelerated decolonisation and the Housing StrategyChapter 11Living in ‘Harmony’: a revolution in Hong Kong housing designChapter 121992-1997: The last Governor – from constitutional impasse to housing boomPART 4: JULY 1997 TO THE PRESENT DAYChapter 131997-2005: The Tung administration - building a ‘new identity’ through public housing?Chapter 142005 to the present: a frustrated recovery?ConclusionHong Kong housing - a monumental heritage of the Lion Rock Spirit

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

“Hong Kong Public Housing offers a bold and novel contribution by adopting a bi-modal lens, planning policy and architecture, to reinterpret the city’s public housing history… Glendinning’s fine-grained analyses, which deconstruct myths portraying Hong Kong’s public housing story as a ‘miracle’ simply born from the devastating 1953 Shek Kip Mei fire or as an adjunct to the city’s industrialization and rise as an Asian Tiger, make the book a compelling a read… Glendinning’s balanced critique of both colonial and post-handover housing policies stands out as exemplary.”Luk, Y. X. C. (2025). Hong Kong Public Housing: An Architectural and Policy History: by Miles Glendinning, Oxfordshire and New York, Routledge, 2024, 517 pp., £94.50 (e-book), £105.00 (hardback). Planning Perspectives, 40(5), 1416–1418. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2548077

• Introduction - A mirror of identity? Public housing in Hong KongPART 1: TOWARDS A PUBLIC HOUSING DRIVEChapter 11945-1953: Laying the foundationsChapter 21954-1957: Shek Kip Mei and the Resettlement revolutionChapter 31958-1964: Robin Black and incremental reformChapter 41964-1971: Trench’s governorship – pragmatism and tentative reformismPART 2: THE MACLEHOSE YEARSChapter 51971-1973: Building a ‘model city’? The MacLehose Revolution Chapter 61973-1976: Utopia on hold - from crisis management to programme planning Chapter 7MacLehose’s ‘brainchild’: The Home Ownership Scheme Chapter 81977-1982: Consolidating the revolutionPART 3: COUNTDOWN TO THE HANDOVERChapter 91982-1986: Youde’s governorship – from sovereignty to stabilisationChapter 101987-1992: The Wilson years - accelerated decolonisation and the Housing StrategyChapter 11Living in ‘Harmony’: a revolution in Hong Kong housing designChapter 121992-1997: The last Governor – from constitutional impasse to housing boomPART 4: JULY 1997 TO THE PRESENT DAYChapter 131997-2005: The Tung administration - building a ‘new identity’ through public housing?Chapter 142005 to the present: a frustrated recovery?ConclusionHong Kong housing - a monumental heritage of the Lion Rock Spirit

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

“Hong Kong Public Housing offers a bold and novel contribution by adopting a bi-modal lens, planning policy and architecture, to reinterpret the city’s public housing history… Glendinning’s fine-grained analyses, which deconstruct myths portraying Hong Kong’s public housing story as a ‘miracle’ simply born from the devastating 1953 Shek Kip Mei fire or as an adjunct to the city’s industrialization and rise as an Asian Tiger, make the book a compelling a read… Glendinning’s balanced critique of both colonial and post-handover housing policies stands out as exemplary.”Luk, Y. X. C. (2025). Hong Kong Public Housing: An Architectural and Policy History: by Miles Glendinning, Oxfordshire and New York, Routledge, 2024, 517 pp., £94.50 (e-book), £105.00 (hardback). Planning Perspectives, 40(5), 1416–1418. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2548077

• Introduction - A mirror of identity? Public housing in Hong KongPART 1: TOWARDS A PUBLIC HOUSING DRIVEChapter 11945-1953: Laying the foundationsChapter 21954-1957: Shek Kip Mei and the Resettlement revolutionChapter 31958-1964: Robin Black and incremental reformChapter 41964-1971: Trench’s governorship – pragmatism and tentative reformismPART 2: THE MACLEHOSE YEARSChapter 51971-1973: Building a ‘model city’? The MacLehose Revolution Chapter 61973-1976: Utopia on hold - from crisis management to programme planning Chapter 7MacLehose’s ‘brainchild’: The Home Ownership Scheme Chapter 81977-1982: Consolidating the revolutionPART 3: COUNTDOWN TO THE HANDOVERChapter 91982-1986: Youde’s governorship – from sovereignty to stabilisationChapter 101987-1992: The Wilson years - accelerated decolonisation and the Housing StrategyChapter 11Living in ‘Harmony’: a revolution in Hong Kong housing designChapter 121992-1997: The last Governor – from constitutional impasse to housing boomPART 4: JULY 1997 TO THE PRESENT DAYChapter 131997-2005: The Tung administration - building a ‘new identity’ through public housing?Chapter 142005 to the present: a frustrated recovery?ConclusionHong Kong housing - a monumental heritage of the Lion Rock Spirit