At Home with Density

INDEX

INDEX Air-conditioner, 60 , 95, 110 , 18 2 Altar, 126-7 , 12 8 Aluminium windows , 96 , 11 0 Anderson, E.N. , 3 0 Ancestors, 117 , 125 , 128; ancestral, 121; ancestral portraits , 131 ; ancestral tablets , 20, 11 7 Annual Repor t o n Hong Kon g (1946), 1 7 Anthropology/anthropological, 4 7 Architecture, xi ; architectura l designs, 41, HKHA architect(s), 41, 42, 60, 195 ; architectural models , 19 6 Art, 129 , 167-175 , 19 0 Ayres, Dr Phineas , 1 4 Bachelard, Gaston , 84 , 149 , 177 , 178, 18 6 Bagua, 12 4 Bed(s), 56, 58, 62, 98-103, 106 , 110 , 111, 115 , 134, 137 , 147-9 , 156 , 157, 176-8 , 18 8 Berkowitz, M.I.,11 8 Bosco, Joseph , 173 Bourdieu, Pierre , 52, 66, 67, 140-1 , 163, 167 , 17 3 Buddhism, 12 7 Buttimer, Anne , 7 4 Buy or Rent Option , 3 7 Caged birds, 14 3 Calendars, 20,63 , 17 1 Cantonese translation , 7 3 CARE programme, 4 1 Castells, Manuel , 37, 45 Chadwick Repor t 188 2 and 1902 , 15 Chan Ping-chiu , 20-22 , 30, 33 China, 16 , 17,18 , 22, 23, 33, 35, 53, 58, 76,11 8 Chinese people 12 , 13 , 14, 15, 16, 19,23,30,33,50, 117,118 , 120-4, 125 , 127; furniture 13 , 142; lifestyle, 13 ; values, 66 ; sayings, 76-77 ; style, 119 , 126 ; windmill, 124 ; temples, 131 ; painting, 168 , 171 , 190; Three Chinese Legends , 168 ; calligraphy, 171 ; costumes, 171; calendar , 17 1 Choi Hun g Estate , 3 7 Cockloft, 13, 24, 56 Commissioner fo r resettlement , 54 , 55 242 Inde x Common sense , 96, 104-108 , 153, 186, 19 7 Communism, 3 5 Community, 21-22 , 26, 32, 35-40, 78 Concord, 40 , 4 2 Conscious model , 120 , 122 , 13 1 Consumption, 6 , 52, 53, 54, 70, 145-60, 19 8 Contractors/decorators, 54 , 55, 63, 65, 94, 157-8 , 188 , 19 1 Crowded/crowding, 4 , 16 , 17 , 2930 , 79 , 85, 143 , 176 , 19 4 Culture o f density , 7 Cultural insider , 8 , 69, 71; Cultural outsider, x , 8, 69, 71 , 117, 121, 124 Custom-made furniture , 155-7 , 19 8 Dai pai dong, 3 3 Davis, Si r John, 1 3 Decision-making, 6 , 7 , 74, 79, 115, 119, 155 , 158, 159 , 161 , 197 Density, 2 , 3-6, 7 , 29, 30, 32, 57, 70, 74,80,8,85,86,95, 106 , 111, 115, 137 , 138 , 139, 145 , 146, 161, 194, - Pathology o f density , 3, 194 ; density an d crowding , 4; density copin g mechanisms , 3, 5 , 30, 58, 142 ; density intensity , 19 4 Des Voeux, Si r William, 1 2 Design, xii , xiii, 3, 6, 32, 33, 34, 39, 41, 42 , 47, 64, 77-8, 80, 87, 88, 104, 151 , 154-6, 158 , 162 , 166, 190, 191 , 194, 197 ; design problem, 79 , 184 ; design research, 80 , 19 6 Designer(s), 6-7, 42, 64, 77 , 107 , 14 6 Double-H block , 40 , 70, 92 Do-It-Yourself, 161 , 196, 19 8 Economy, xiii , 40, 49, Education, 17 , 50, 51, 66, 7 6 Electricity, 19 , 21, 55 Electrical appliances , 42, 44, 55, 62, 161-2, 18 7 European Reservatio n Ordinanc e 1888, 1 2 Everyday experience , 5 , 7-9, 52, 134, Family Insigh t Tour , xi i Family photographs, 20 , 56, 63 169 71 Flats for Sal e Scheme, 3 7 Flexible furniture, 135 , 142, 15 9 Folk religion, 118-9 , 124 , 13 1 Folk model, 121- 2 Freedman, Jonathan , 19 4 Fung-shui, 123-4 , 12 7 Geertz, Clifford , 8 , 105 , 107 , 19 7 Giddens, Anthony, 7 3 Golger, Otto , 20 , 29 Government Low-Cos t Housing , 26, 35, 54 Grantham, Si r Alexander, 1 9 Gutman, Rober t an d Westergaard , Barbara, 19 5 Habitus, 49, 52- 67, 69, 72, 107 , 108, 140 , 141 , 163 Hennessy, Si r John Pope, 1 4 High density , xii, xiii, 2, 3, 4, 24, 30, 46, 52, 82, 108 , 134 , 135 , 145, 147,156 , 158 , 184 , 187 , 194, 19 7 Harmony Blocks , 40, 41 HoKai, 1 5 Homelife, 32-3 5 Homeownership, 9 , 40, 51, 194 Home ownershi p schem e (HOS) , 36, 40, 9 0 Home purchase Loa n Scheme , 3 7 Home Starte r Loa n Scheme , 3 7 Hong Kong Tourism Board , 3 Index 24 3 Hong Kong : people, xii, 3, 4, 8, 30, 35, 44, 46, 49, 73, 86, 140 , 145 , 167, 194 ; home , xi , 11,58,69 , 71, 166 , 117 , 139 , 166...