ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Hong Kong's residential segregation patterns. It discusses local institutions, public housing policies and town planning system that have played the major role in keeping the city from developing such ghettos. The chapter analyses Large Street Block (LSBG) based on two Census waves of 1996 and 2006. The use of the LSBG signifies an improvement over previous studies which employed only much larger Census tracts at the Tertiary Planning Unit (TPU) level. The chapter focuses on the distribution of income and occupational groups across spatial boundaries in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's social and economic structures have been shaped by the city's increasing integration into the global economy, and at the core of the wider Pearl River Delta (PRD) agglomeration. The land and urban planning policy also plays a role in inhibiting factors that might lead to development of ghettos and in enhancing social mix.
