Publication
Principal Investigator: Joshua Bolchover (PI), Peter Hasdell (Co-PI)
Funding body: GRF
Hong Kong’s border with Shenzhen is incrementally dissolving. By 2047, 50 years after the 1997 handover of Hong Kong the border will no longer exist. This also will mean the dissolution of the economic and political zones of the “One Country Two Systems” policy; significantly the Special Administration Region of Hong Kong and the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen. As part of the re-integration process serious considerations need to be made concerning the potential impact this will have on the urban development of both sides of the border as well as the larger impact this may have on the entire Pearl River Delta region.
The research project has 3 main aims:
- To understand the border region as part of a larger urban ecology existing between the cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen. To examine specific processes of urbanization that have occurred within the zone and to understand the forces that will play a role in determining the future of the border area.
- To propose an urban strategy for the Frontier Closed Area that engages with the specific relationships that exist across the border to make a proposal that is mutually beneficial to both Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
- To position Hong Kong’s unique border condition within a larger frame of academic discourse on border studies.