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Kowloon Walled City: A Case of Land Administration of a Disputed Territory

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  • Lawrence W. C. Lai

    (Ronald Coase Centre for Property Rights Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)

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Informed by hitherto unreported archival materials and the relevant literature, this short paper employs a case study of the post-war Hong Kong Government’s administration of the so-called Kowloon Walled City to elucidate two fundamental principles of land administration in the use of land: (a) certitude of land boundaries and (b) public health and safety. Land administration of this densely populated and growing habitat, being a territory under disputed colonial jurisdiction, was characterised by the meticulous enforcement of an officially adopted boundary and the implementation of a site and service approach for a high-rise settlement by the Colonial Hong Kong Government.

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  • Lawrence W. C. Lai, 2024. "Kowloon Walled City: A Case of Land Administration of a Disputed Territory," Land, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:13:y:2024:i:12:p:2112-:d:1538034
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