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Shek Kip Mei was the first public housing estate development in Hong Kong built by the British colonial government in 1954. The resettlement project was an immediate response to the need for temporary relief as a result of the massive fire that destroyed the Shek Kip Mei squatter area on Christmas Eve 1953, when over 53,000 Chinese immigrants lost their makeshift homes(...)
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Shek Kip Mei was the first public housing estate development in Hong Kong built by the British colonial government in 1954. The resettlement project was an immediate response to the need for temporary relief as a result of the massive fire that destroyed the Shek Kip Mei squatter area on Christmas Eve 1953, when over 53,000 Chinese immigrants lost their makeshift homes(...)
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Our home: Shek Kip Mei 1954-2006
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Shek Kip Mei was the first public housing estate development in Hong Kong built by the British colonial government in 1954. The resettlement project was an immediate response to the need for temporary relief as a result of the massive fire that destroyed the Shek Kip Mei squatter area on Christmas Eve 1953, when over 53,000 Chinese immigrants lost their makeshift homes overnight. This carefully designed book reproduces and explains the documentation of the aerea made by Governor Sir Alexander Grantham in 1954 to the British Government on the Great Fire. It includes a letter of appeal to the Governor, statistics about the residents, but abovw all it shows in 128, mostly full page b/w photographs, the appartments of the complex and their habitants.
Our home: Shek Kip Mei 1954-2006
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$48.00
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Summary:
Shek Kip Mei was the first public housing estate development in Hong Kong built by the British colonial government in 1954. The resettlement project was an immediate response to the need for temporary relief as a result of the massive fire that destroyed the Shek Kip Mei squatter area on Christmas Eve 1953, when over 53,000 Chinese immigrants lost their makeshift homes overnight. This carefully designed book reproduces and explains the documentation of the aerea made by Governor Sir Alexander Grantham in 1954 to the British Government on the Great Fire. It includes a letter of appeal to the Governor, statistics about the residents, but abovw all it shows in 128, mostly full page b/w photographs, the appartments of the complex and their habitants.
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books
books
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October 2007
October 2007
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Photography by Region
Photography by Region
