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Railroading Hong Kong's Development

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Aug 02, 2006
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While furious debate continues in Hong Kong over urban renewal, prodigious tracts of railway land and precious urban sites are being quietly redeveloped through semi-public statutory bodies under government control, dramatically reshaping the city’s face without public participation.

These bodies—the MTRC, which operates the subway system; the Kowloon Ca…

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