Town Planning in Hong Kong

Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai

This book is written for professionals and practitioners who are interested in town planning, such as policymakers who deal with planning and development matters, lawyer, developers, proprietors, town planners, environmental protection officers and transport officers in the government and private practice, members of the Town Planning Board and Town Planning Appeal Board, estate and building surveyors, architects, authorized persons and academics whose research area is in planning and decision-making of statutory bodies, particularly those who are interested in "rent-seeking," "economic analysis of law" and "property rights." There has been in recent years rapid expansion and development in the Town Planning Ordinance, which was first passed in 1939, and the ensuing case law. However, there have been few systematic publications on statutory planning in Hong Kong from the perspective...

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