Globalizing Hong Kong under "One Country, Two Systems"

Paper Session - China's New Dynamics of Urbanization, Migration, and Labor Market Reform: II: abstract no. 47491Hong Kong is a suitable candidate to unfold the alternative, non-western, Asian phase of modernity. As a nation state Hong Kong already possesses a number of challenges, i.e., density, livability, housing inequity, urban renewal. 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 People's Republic of China (PRC) or as the center of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in south China. Hong Kong's spatial distribution is very crucial to attract and retain global flow of capital and actors for the long term.link_to_OA_fulltextAnnual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New York City, N.Y., 24-28 February 2012