Heritage Preservation and Urban Renewal in Hong Kong
In recent years several regions of Hong Kong are being redeveloped, and many old buildings have been, or will be demolished, whereas some others will be preserved. In either case, residents of these old buildings are usually required to move out. Consequently, their life will be significantly changed.
Why some old buildings are preserved while others are demolished? What are the selecting criteria, and who have the power to decide? What are the roles played by local communities, scholars and other interest holders in this process? How does the urban re-development have impact on local communities?
This on-going project aims at investigating the issue of heritage preservation in urban renewal in Hong Kong, focusing on roles played by different groups of interest holders, the impact of urban renewal on local peoples' life, and the negotiation of power between these groups.

香港的遺產保護和城市更新
近年來，香港的某些區域重新發展起來。部分老建築被拆毀，但也有一部分保存了下來。無論是拆毀還是保存，這些老建築的居民都被要求遷出，他們的生活因而發生巨大變化。為什麼某些老建築保存下來，而另一些卻面臨被拆毀的命運？此中有怎樣的篩選標準，誰有權力對此作出決定？地方社區在此過程中扮演了怎樣的角色，而學者、其他利益持份者又發揮了什麼作用？城市的再發展如何對地方社區產生影響？本項目研究香港城市更新過程中的遺產保護問題，主要是討論不同利益群體所扮演的不同角色、城市更新對當地人生活的影響，以及在這些群體之間展開的權力協商等。

(For more information, please contact: luliedan@cuhk.edu.hk )

Related publications [相關論文]:
Lu, Tracey and Maria Tam

• 2006 Documenting Wan Chai People's Life, A report submitted to the Wan Chai Urban Council

Lu, Tracey

• 2003 "The Management of Cultural Heritage in Hong Kong". Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Occasional Paper No. 137. Hong Kong: the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.
  
• 2007 "Some Issues on Heritage Conservation and Urban Renewal in Hong Kong", in Proceedings of the International Conferences on Urban Cultures, pp. 275-280, ed. by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH). Beijing: SACH, 2007 (in Chinese)
  
• 2008 "The Construction of Social Memory in History Museums of Hong Kong and Macau": peer-reviewed paper presented at the presented at the 6th International World Archaeology Congress at the University of Dublin, 29th June-4th July 2008.
• 2009a "Heritage Conservation in Post-colonial Hong Kong", International Journal of Heritage Studies, 15 (2-3): 258-272.
  
• 2009b "Urban Heritage Conservation in Two Cities: Comparing Hong Kong to Singapore": peer-reviewed paper presented at the Society of East Asian Anthropology Congress at the Academica Sinica, Taipei, on 2nd July 2009.