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postgraduate thesis: Staging the street : the dynamics of street performance and spatial regulation in Hong Kong
Title | Staging the street : the dynamics of street performance and spatial regulation in Hong Kong |
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Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Chan, C. W. [陳卓妍], Chu, [朱舜君], Leung, N. [梁雁婷], Lo, S. [盧倩文], Tsang, C. [曾俊健]. (2018). Staging the street : the dynamics of street performance and spatial regulation in Hong Kong. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | This paper examines the emergence of Street Performance in Hong Kong with respect to the regulatory management of Public Space. The two most popular locations for Street Performance in Hong Kong, namely the Mong Kok Pedestrian Precinct and the Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront Promenade, are selected for our in-depth study. Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with the Street Performers while six informal oral conversation were carried out with passing-by audience and nearby business owners. The generational and locational change in Street Performance, resulted from the changing social and cultural needs from different groups of Street Performers, shaped the key characteristics of the dynamic culture of Street Performance in Hong Kong. The open space along the streets also offer an environment to promote social integration between citizens, especially Street Performers who staged on the street for various reasons. In addition, by studying how the Street Performers in Hong Kong competed, connected and interacted with each other, the relationship between space ownership and complex ecosystem of Street Performers was divulged. The social impacts of Street Performance on Hong Kong from the perspectives of community indirectly led to the land use conflicts in such areas with different stakeholders in Hong Kong, including audience, business owners and nearby residents. After analyzing the current regulations towards Street Performance in Hong Kong, the research findings reveal that, apart from the introduction of the licensing system of street performers, one of the best way-out for the government to solve the problem of public space usage in Hong Kong is that governance of Street Performance needs to balance the interests of multiple users of the Public Space in order to avoid any land use conflicts and to reduce the concerns of Street Performers like pedestrian flow and effectiveness of their performance.
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Degree | Master of Social Sciences |
Subject | Street theater - China - Hong Kong Street entertainers - China - Hong Kong |
Dept/Program | Criminology |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/264808 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Chan, Cheuk-yin, Winki | - |
dc.contributor.author | 陳卓妍 | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chu, | - |
dc.contributor.author | 朱舜君 | - |
dc.contributor.author | Leung, Ngan-ting | - |
dc.contributor.author | 梁雁婷 | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lo, Sin-man | - |
dc.contributor.author | 盧倩文 | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tsang, Chun-kin | - |
dc.contributor.author | 曾俊健 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-31T03:01:17Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-31T03:01:17Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Chan, C. W. [陳卓妍], Chu, [朱舜君], Leung, N. [梁雁婷], Lo, S. [盧倩文], Tsang, C. [曾俊健]. (2018). Staging the street : the dynamics of street performance and spatial regulation in Hong Kong. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/264808 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the emergence of Street Performance in Hong Kong with respect to the regulatory management of Public Space. The two most popular locations for Street Performance in Hong Kong, namely the Mong Kok Pedestrian Precinct and the Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront Promenade, are selected for our in-depth study. Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with the Street Performers while six informal oral conversation were carried out with passing-by audience and nearby business owners. The generational and locational change in Street Performance, resulted from the changing social and cultural needs from different groups of Street Performers, shaped the key characteristics of the dynamic culture of Street Performance in Hong Kong. The open space along the streets also offer an environment to promote social integration between citizens, especially Street Performers who staged on the street for various reasons. In addition, by studying how the Street Performers in Hong Kong competed, connected and interacted with each other, the relationship between space ownership and complex ecosystem of Street Performers was divulged. The social impacts of Street Performance on Hong Kong from the perspectives of community indirectly led to the land use conflicts in such areas with different stakeholders in Hong Kong, including audience, business owners and nearby residents. After analyzing the current regulations towards Street Performance in Hong Kong, the research findings reveal that, apart from the introduction of the licensing system of street performers, one of the best way-out for the government to solve the problem of public space usage in Hong Kong is that governance of Street Performance needs to balance the interests of multiple users of the Public Space in order to avoid any land use conflicts and to reduce the concerns of Street Performers like pedestrian flow and effectiveness of their performance. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Street theater - China - Hong Kong | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Street entertainers - China - Hong Kong | - |
dc.title | Staging the street : the dynamics of street performance and spatial regulation in Hong Kong | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Social Sciences | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Criminology | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991044049793203414 | - |