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This short article presents the plight of grassroots under the Covid-19 pandemic, which has been in the third wave from mid-July 2020. Like in many other places, the outbreak has caused economic downturn, and intensified stress about health and rising unemployment. The disadvantaged groups are suffering the most, which shows the problem of social inequality in the community. The roles of community social work in Hong Kong are highlighted to show how social workers can contribute to crisis management and empowerment of the deprived.

The world economic landscape has experienced seismic changes in the fifteen years after restoration of sovereignty over Hong Kong from Britain to China. Fortunately the Hong Kong economy has remained steadfast and is still making progress, but public confidence in the governance of the SAR government has declined, and economic and social dissatisfaction have flared. Where should Hong Kong go from here in the face of all kinds of contradictions? Economist Yue Chim Richard Wong provides an analysis of the origins of these contradictions and shares his insights on these issues. All those concerne

by Law, Wing Sang. ; Thesis (M.Ph.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1988. ; Bibliography: leaves [13-19].

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 Hong Kong and Singapore in the World Economy -- City-States in the World Economy -- The Asian NIEs and Research Interest -- Extracting Hong Kong and Singapore from the East Asian Development Model -- Industrialization as an Instituted Process -- Industrial Restructuring and Firms' Response -- Summary -- Notes -- 2 Historical Trajectories: Common Legacies, Different Outcomes -- Common History -- Crossroads Ahead -- Parting Ways -- Contrasting Institutional Framework of Export-led Growth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Hong Kong: Locked into Labor-intensive Manufacturing -- Patterns of Industrial Development -- Triggers of Industrial Restructuring -- Industry Adjustments in the 1980s -- Environment and Firms' Strategy -- Re-formation of the Industrial Structure -- Notes -- 4 Singapore: Manufacturing Fortunes in "Sunrise" and "High Noon" Industries -- Patterns of Industrial Development -- Triggers of Industrial Restructuring -- Industry Adjustments in the 1980s -- Environment and Firms' Strategy -- Re-formation of the Industrial Structure -- Notes -- 5 Hong Kong versus Singapore: Divergent Paths of Economic Change -- Comparative Overview of Restructuring Strategies -- Path-dependence and Economic Change -- Notes -- 6 Comparing Institutional Legacies and Trajectories -- State-Industry Relation -- Finance-Industry Relation -- Labor-Capital Relation -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- 7 Conclusion -- History and Institution -- Geo-political Context -- Size -- State Intervention -- Consequences of Industrial Restructuring -- Hong Kong and Singapore in the Global Economy -- Appendix: Survey on Enterprise Strategy -- List of Abbreviations -- References -- About the Book and Authors -- Index

Briefing, where a construction client conveys his / her needs and aspirations to the design team, is described as the first and most important step in the process of delivering a building or other physical infrastructure. Due to the significant commitment of resources, it is recommended that clients carefully define and examine their needs in terms of project requirements, before and during briefing. Nevertheless, briefing is subject to many practical limitations. Many clients may overlook important aspects of briefing and various problems such as delays and cost overruns may ensue. Although the literature shows a substantial amount of studies that have addressed some briefing problems, briefing is still reported to pose continuing problems in the construction industry. Given the importance of improving the conceptualisation and implementation of briefing, a 'collaborative briefing approach' was developed in this study to improve the briefing process and its outputs, with particular reference to large-scale infrastructure projects, which involve multiple interfaces with many stakeholders. The above approach is designed to empower the traditionally mobilised briefing team to work collaboratively with a large group of multi-disciplinary stakeholders as an integrated briefing team in the form of a virtual organisation through a shared digital workspace created on a computer network. The workspace enables all members to work together remotely and asynchronously so as to achieve greater stakeholder participation in briefing. Since stakeholders contribute in bringing professional knowledge, experience and creativity to briefing, the enhanced stakeholder participation will increase their inputs and result in more fruitful briefing outputs. In this study, a comprehensive survey was first conducted to investigate and compare the strengths and weaknesses of common briefing practices in the Hong Kong construction industry, so as to establish a theoretical foundation for the research. An 'Integrated Collaborative Briefing Methodology' (INTERCOM) was developed to translate the described approach into a set of actionable methods and job plans for practical use. The INTERCOM comprises of five components: (i) a value based briefing methodology, (ii) a collaborative briefing job plan, (iii) an integrated briefing team, (iv) a collaborative briefing platform, and (v) facilitation service. The first four components were developed and validated by a group of well experienced multi-disciplinary industry practitioners. The fifth component merits a separate research and development exercise. The validation results reveal that the concept of collaborative briefing approach and the design of the INTERCOM methodology were well supported by the practitioners. In addition, it was concluded that the methodology would contribute to improve the briefing process by facilitating team management, enhancing requirement definition and promoting consensus building. It also improved requirement comprehensiveness, decision transparency, decision reliability, and decision satisfaction, as well as the value and quantity of the requirements specified in the brief. The validation also highlights some practical limitations including potential political barriers, time constraints, specialist facilitator and resources limitations. Moreover, the net benefits of the developed 'collaborative briefing approach' are concluded to be very worthwhile, both in principle and for practical purposes. The additional significance of this study is that it researched and developed a "panoramic view" of briefing practices from a practical perspective, linked the knowledge of briefing to the domain of collaboration through a "collaborative briefing approach" and developed the framework for a new generation of ICT systems for supporting and substantially improving the briefing process. ; published_or_final_version ; Civil Engineering ; Doctoral ; Doctor of Philosophy

We approach Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, also known as Occupy Central, encountered in 2 days in November 2014 as an exemplar of literacy as placemaking. As a contemporary city-based resistance movement, the creation and subsequent resemiotisation of literacy artefacts were an important element of spatialised practice in asserting a new and dynamic sense of citizenship. In their collaborative design, shared commitment to certain values and expressions of political resistance, these occupation sites may be read as an instantiation of Goodsell's concept of public space. The initial research site of engagement gave rise to a dataset of photographs that the authors examined together as discourses in place, informed by cultural knowledge of Hong Kong. Selecting two photographs, we broaden out beyond the linguistic features of texts to consider processes of creative semiotic remediation. We suggest that in such placemaking activities, the Umbrella Movement activists embodied Giroux's concept of literacy as emancipatory practice. Finally, we make suggestions as to how this study might be connected to a critical pedagogy of place.

Yao, Wang. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-39). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Abstract --- p.i ; Acknowledgements --- p.ii ; Contents --- p.iii ; Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter 2 --- A Case Study of the Land Market in Hong Kong --- p.7 ; Chapter 2.1 --- Background --- p.7 ; Chapter 2.2 --- Institutions related to the land market --- p.7 ; Chapter 2.2.1 --- Land Disposals --- p.8 ; Chapter 2.2.2 --- Public Housing --- p.9 ; Chapter 2.3 --- Recent Land and Housing Market History --- p.10 ; Chapter 2.3.1 --- Land Supply and Land Prices --- p.11 ; Chapter 3 --- A Theory of Political Economy of Land Supply --- p.16 ; Chapter 3.1 --- Model Setup --- p.16 ; Chapter 3.2 --- Definition of Equilibrium --- p.19 ; Chapter 3.3 --- Equilibrium Characterization --- p.20 ; Chapter 3.4 --- Comparative Statics --- p.28 ; Chapter 4 --- Conclusion --- p.31 ; Appendix --- p.33 ; Reference --- p.38