ABSTRACT
Leeds provides an insight into the entrepreneurial spirit that underlaid the development of the public transport industry in Hong Kong. The British occupied Hong Kong Island from 1841 to 1997 on the basis of somewhat dubious trading activities in the nineteenth century and their victory over the Chinese in the First Opium War. China ceded parts of the Kowloon peninsula and Stonecutters Island in 1860 at the end of the Second Opium Wars. Edward Pryor, the Principal Government Town Planner responsible for strategic planning at the time of writing this book, provides a more officially oriented account of the main methodological steps and principles employed in strategic land-use and transport planning in the territory, particularly the Territorial Development Strategy. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
