Public-private Partnership with Reference to Hong Kong

The Fabric of the Metropolis: Workshop 6: Stakeholders and public action: Hong Kong. Globalizing the city under “One Country, Two Systems”Hong Kong is the obvious candidate to unfold the alternative, non-western, Asian phase of modernity in the coming decades. As a nation state, Hong Kong already possesses a number of challenges, i.e. density, livability, housing inequity, urban renewal, etc. The 50 years’ transitional period of ‘one country-two systems’ is itself a challenge because of the anonymity of its future direction towards either an edge city status of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) or as the center of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in south China. Against such challenges, Hong Kong’s spatial distribution is very crucial to attract and retain global flows of capital and actors for the long term. Different modes of public-private partnership in the development process will be examined as a discourse to inform the dynamics of urban capacity, efficiency of infrastructure and conservation of open space within the territory