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The Politicization of a Private Infrastructure:Hong Kong’s Pedestrian Bridge Network

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): Jennifer Lee Michaliszyn

The 2014 “Umbrella Protest’ and 2011-12 Occupy Central demonstrations in Hong Kong were sited along and under segments of the city’s well-known pedestrian bridge infrastructure. The walkways are often cited by critics as examples of a public realm compromised by private management and surveillance. But these recent events compel a reexamination of the bridge network, and whether these privatized connectors, through their appropriation as spaces of informal and unsanctioned activity, have evolved into a supporting armature for dissent and a kind of ‘infrastructure of inclusion’.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.105.74

Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne

ISBN
978-1-944214-08-1