Declaration: "Stop Demolition of Old Residential Areas" and "Stop Top-down Approach toward Urban Renewal". Old Residential Areas provide a cheap place for various grass-roots people to live, to make money, to shop, to interact, to make friends and to release pressure. Tin Shiu Wai's suicide makes us recognize that without the support of old residential area which is full of vibrant social activities, standalone public housing estates fail to provide social fabric for the grass-roots people to live, to work, to interact, to release their pressures, etc.

The group is aimed at spreading out some messages of Urban Renewal in Hong Kong to our global citizen. The content might include:
1. Development issues;
2. Urban renewal issues such as "gentrification", "demolishing old town"
3. Urban movement;
4. Community development issues;
6. Urban social lives, such as "deviance", "poverty"...
7. City structure;
8.......

Go to "City and Community Journal"
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1535-6841&site=1

This group encourages You to learn from Herbert J Gans to do urban ethnography!! (read less)

Declaration: "Stop Demolition of Old Residential Areas" and "Stop Top-down Approach toward Urban Renewal". Old Residential Areas provide a cheap place for various grass-roots people to live, to make money, to shop, to interact, to make friends and to release pressure. Tin Shiu Wai's suicide makes us recognize that without the support of old residential area which is full of vibrant social activities, standalone public housing estates fail to provide social fabric for the grass-roots people to... (read more)