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In this engaging and extensively illustrated book, Cecilia L. Chu retells the 'Hong Kong story' by tracing theemergence of its 'speculative landscape' from the late nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century.

By attending to the divergent forces and actors involved in property development in different geopolitical contexts, The Speculative City illustrates both the novelty and historical continuity of urbanization in the twentieth-first century.

The Speculative City explores property speculation as a key aspect of financialization and its role in reshaping the contemporary built environment. The book offers a series of case studies that encompass a range of cities whose urban fabrics have undergone significant transformation in recent years. While the forms of these developments shared many similarities, their trajectories and social outcomes were contingent upon existing planning and...

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