Teaching
Fields
Urban studies 城市研究
Urban and regional planning and development 城市及區域規劃與發展
Sustainable development 可持續發展
Cities and globalisation 城市.全球化
Research
Interests
Urban planning and governance 城市規劃與管治
Strategic spatial planning 策略性空間規劃
Production of space and the politics of planning 空間再造與規劃政治
Urban regeneration 都市更新
Sustainable development 可持續發展
Community planning 社區規劃
Services/Post
Member, The Placemaking Leadership Council, Project for Public Space, New York.
Member, Product Eco-responsibility Appeal Board Panel.
Member, Membership Board, Hong Kong Institute of Planners
Member, Examination Board, Hong Kong Institute of Planners
Academic advisor, Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design
Faculty, Hong Kong Green Building Council
Honorary Fellow, Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of Hong Kong
Co-founder, Community Living Room
Associate Editor:
Planning Theory and Practice, Routledge.
Editorial Board member:
Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley
City, Culture and Society, Elsevier.
disP—the Planning Review, Journal of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), ETH Zurich.
Journal of Mega Infrastructure and Sustainable Development
Town Planning Review, Liverpool University Press.
Selected
Publications
Ng, M.K. and Mak, Winnie W.S. (2020), “The right to spatial development for human flourishing,” Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning, Vol.4, Issue 1, pp.22-32, http://transactions-journal.aesop-planning.eu/volume-4/article-33/.
Ng, M.K. (2020), “The making of ‘violent’ Hong Kong: A centennial dream? A fight for democracy? A challenge to humanity?” Planning Theory and Practice, DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2020.1769914.
Ng, M.K. (2020), "Transformative urbanism and reproblematising land scarcity in Hong Kong," Urban Studies, Vol.57, Issue 7, pp.1452-1468.
Ng, M.K. (2019), “Governing green urbanism: the case of Shenzhen, China,” Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol.41, Issue 1, pp.64-82.
Ng, M.K. (2019), “Dystopian utopia? Utopian dystopia? A tale of two struggles for the right to the city,” in Leary-Owhin, M.E. and McCarthy, J.P., Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society, Routledge, Chapter 45, pp.501-510.
Ng, M.K. (2018), “Sustainable community building in the face of state-led gentrification: the story of the Blue House cluster in Hong Kong,” Town Planning Review, Vol.89, Issue 5, pp.465-512.
Chen, H.W., Ng, M.K., Es, M., Lee, J., Mak, W.W.S. and Tong, Y. (2018), “Socio-spatial polarization and the (re)-distribution of deprived groups in world cities: a case study of Hong Kong,” Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1421392.
Ng, M.K. (2018), “John Friedmann’s ‘radical’ legacy in Asia’s world city, Hong Kong,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 84, Issue 2, pp.197-199 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2018.1424558).
Ng, M.K. (2018), “Urban renewal, sense of community and social capital: a case study of two neighbourhoods in Hong Kong,” in Clark, J. and N. Wise (eds), Wellbeing and Community Change: Issues and Impacts in Urban Renewal, Springer Urban Book Series, pp.1-23.
Ng, M.K. (2017), “Enclosure and recommoning: the struggle of community development in Asia’s World City,” Local Economy, Vol.32, Issue 7, pp.640-655, (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0269094217733683).
Rangan, H., Ng, M.K., Chase, J., Porter, L. (2016), Insurgencies and Revolutions: Reflections on John Friedmann’s Contributions to Planning Theory and Practice, Routledge.
Ng, M.K. (2016), “From Xinhai Revolution (1911) to the Umbrella Movement (2014): Insurgent citizenship, radical planning and Chinese culture in the Hong Kong SAR,” in Rangan, H., Ng, M.K., Chase, J., Porter, L. (2016), Insurgencies and Revolutions: Reflections on John Friedmann’s Contributions to Planning Theory and Practice, Routledge
Ng, M.K., Zhai, B-Q, Zhao, Y-Q and Li, J. (2016), “Valuing Xi’an: a Chinese capital for 13 dynasties,” disP—The Planning Review, 52(3): 8-15, DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2016.1235867
(http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/nYRNgmghHwTwAmJiabWb/full)
Ng, M.K. (2016), “The right to healthy place-making and well-being,” Planning Theory and Practice, 17(1), 3-6. (http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YmMRAUrQyWivMZkrKihd/full)
Research Projects
Principal Investigator
“A critical review of the Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines (HKPSG) through the lens of people’s rights to spatial development for multifaceted well-being,” General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, 1/1/2021-31/12/2023 (HK$1203,776).
“Reinventing ‘commons’ in the New Territories, Hong Kong: institutional challenges and planning implications,” General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, 2019-2021 ($926,088).
“A multi-dimensional ‘point-line-plane’ approach for industrial heritage conservation in Hong Kong: a case study of Ma On Shan (MOS) Iron Mine,” Funding Scheme for Thematic Research on Built Heritage Conservation 2018, The Government of Hong Kong, 1/7/2018-31/7/2020 (HK$2 million).
“’Responsive or transformative practice’? Strategic spatial planning in Hong Kong, Singapore and Shenzhen,” General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, 2017-2018 ($661,500).
“Low Carbon Living in a High-density Environment—Strategies for optimizing Hong Kong’s living environment beyond 2030,” Institution of Civil Engineers (Hong Kong Association), 2014-2015 (HK$810,000).
“Growth machines? Sustainable communities? Values and urban fortunes in Chinese cities,” General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, 2015-2016 (HK$672,392).
“’Community capacities, social capital, citizen values and impact assessment’: community-based planning as a missing component in the urban planning system in Hong Kong?” General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, 2014-2015 (HK$520,000).
“’Walled buildings’, ‘the right to the city’, place governance and the delayed amendment of an outdated planning ordinance: an institutional analysis”, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, 2011-2013 (HK$487,727).
"’The Production of Space is a Matter of Life and Death’? A Lefebvrian perspective on old urban neighbourhood renewal in Hong Kong and Taipei,” General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, 2010-2012 (HK$430,675).
“Rationality and Power: towards a phronetic understanding of the practice of reclamation in Hong Kong,” Research Grants Council, 1 January 2007 to 30 June 2009 (HK$509,640).
“Rhetoric versus Action: land use planning practice in Shenzhen, the People’s Republic of China,” Research Grants Council, 1 Dec. 1999 to 30 Nov. 2001 (HK$405,000).
“An Urban Regeneration Strategy for Hong Kong: addressing key socio-economic issues in a restructuring context,” Research Grants Council. 1 Dec. 1997 to 30 Nov. 1999 (HK$200,000).
“A Comparative Study of the Land Use Planning Systems in Hong Kong and Selected cities in Guangdong Province, China.” Research Grants Council. 1 December 1995 to 30 November 1997 (HK$165,000).
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