Un-forgetting walls by lines on maps: A case study on property rights,cadastral mapping,and the landscape of the Kowloon Walled City |
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| Institution: | 1. Ronald Coase Centre for Property Rights Research, Hong Kong, China;2. Department of Real Estate and Construction, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;1. Agronomist Freelance—Viterbo, Italy;2. Department for Innovation in Biological Agro Food and Forest system (DIBAF)—Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy;3. Department of Economics and Management (DEIM)—Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy;1. Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa- DEIM, Università della Tuscia,Via del Paradiso 47, 01100 Viterbo, Italy;2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – FAO, V.le delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy;3. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Cra 27 #64-60 Manizales, Caldas, Colombia;4. Dipartimento per la Innovazione nei Sistemi Biologici Agroalimentari e Forestali – DIBAF, Università della Tuscia, Via S. C. De Lellis snc, 01100 Viterbo, Italy;1. USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, NYC Urban Field Station, 431 Walter Reed Road, Bayside, NY 11359-1137, United States;2. School of Economics, University of Maine, 5572 Winslow Hall, Orono, ME 04469, United States;1. School of Occupational Therapy & Social Work, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia;2. School of Education and Communication, CHILD Programme, Institute of Disability Research, Jönköping University, Sweden;3. Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University & Pain and Rehabilitation Centre, Anaesthetics, Operations and Speciality Surgery Center, Region Östergötland, SE-581 85, Linköping, Sweden;4. School of Occupational Therapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, 3086, Australia;5. Chalmers University of Technology, Shipping and Marine Technology, SE 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden;6. The Swedish Transport Administration, Borlänge, Sweden;1. Belarusian State Technological University, Department of Economics and Plant Management, Belarus;2. Belarusian State Technological University, Production Organization and Real Estate Economics Department, Sverdlov Street 13a, 220006 Minsk, Belarus;3. University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Department of Economic and Regional Policy, Oczapowskiego Street 4, 10-724 Olsztyn, Poland;4. University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Department of Real Estate Management and Regional Development, Prawocheńskiego Street 15, 10-724 Olsztyn, Poland |
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| Abstract: | This paper demonstrates that the framing of post-war Kowloon Walled City through photos has been dominated by the maps commonly used to represent this Chinese enclave in colonial Hong Kong as a place. Inspired by and extending Wylie’s (2009) argument that emptiness and presence are equally important, this paper uses basic GIS techniques and hitherto unpublished archival materials to help (a) argues that the colonial government’s mindset of clearly defining the spatial boundary of the city, which is a subtle admission of an officially and diplomatically denied otherness in ownership, created the city as a quasi-cadastral unit; and (b) explains how this shaped the framing of the landscape of the city by promoting investment and trade in high-rise housing development units. The government did not destroy its walls. When these were physically destroyed, it did not ignore the walls’ original alignments but treated the city as a planning unit, as if they still existed. |
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| Keywords: | Property rights Framing landscape Planning unit Cadastral unit Kowloon Walled City |
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