published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

旺角花園街是一處我住了很久的地方，兒時的花園街對我來說不單純是賣買活動空間，而是一處提供了自我伸延與探索的空間。過去不少街道研究學者指出，街道是人與人相互溝通的平台，可孕育出一個有機多元的社區生態，並維持和體現人際之間緊密接觸的溝通地方。 / 今天花園街是一條包含了233個排檔和139地舖的街道，排檔小販之間和與街坊的關係長久建立著緊密的社區人際關係網。本文以花園街作為案例研究，並以實證研究出發，透過街道觀察和訪問來探索社區人際網絡背後的條件和元素，與及它們之間的關係與影響。從研究所得，本文認為花園街的社區人際關係網得以建構，並非止於浪漫化了的人情味指涉，而背後當中有著多層互相交錯、補足和制衡的複雜元素，當中的元素包含著街道空間挪用、街頭經濟活動、個人歷史背景、鄰里間情誼、小販政策和媒體等等各種元素，這些錯綜複雜的元素透過每天日復日彼此交織、協商和積累並建構著今天花園街的社區人際親密關係網。 / Fa Yuen Street is an opened and public market located on the edge of Mong Kok District where I have lived for many years. To me, the street was not simply a place where people did the activity of buying and selling daily, but it was also a place where I was provided with the opportunity for my self-discovery and development in my childhood. Many scholars argued that a street is a platform that allows a lot of communication to take place, which in return help people fostering a local community of diversity and building an intimate relationship among each other. / Today, Fa Yuen Street has gradually been turning into a packed location which accommodates about 233 hawker stalls and 139 street-level shops. Many inter-connected factors and interactions between the different stakeholders (such as hawkers, habitants, shop owners, etc.) all together contribute to creation of a tightly knit community and close relationships for years. Such factors include the daily interactions between all Fa Yuen Street hawkers themselves, between hawkers and their neighborhood in the area, or even shoppers from other districts, etc. The research paper uses Fa Yuen Street as a case study and adopts a qualitative research approach, which mainly uses ethnographic research methods such as field visits, participatory observation, and in-depth interviews with stakeholders during the past two years. It aims to explore a range of inter-related perspectives or elements of the street and how they construct a strong sense of neighbourhood, and the tightly networked social bonds in a distinctly local context. For instance, it is important to look into the general conditions or scenes for setting up such social bonds, the unique factors contributing to it, their influence on one another, etc. The findings indicate that a good community network or relationship is not simply rooted in glorifying the factor of human interest or human warmth in the experience, but it is rather formed based on multi-aspects and complex factors. For instance, these crucial elements include spatial appropriation, business competition among stakeholders, historical background of the street, personal experiences and friendships among the neighbourhood, hawker policies and enforcement of law, media interference, and the influence of other street dependents, etc. These intricated elements are inter-related and inter-contextualized, which intertwined with people’s everyday lives, resulting in the successful construction of a unique and strong social community on Fa Yuen Street today. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 郭斯恆. / Parallel title from English abstract. / Thesis (M.Phil.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-237). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Guo Siheng.

Kwok Kin-fun. / Thesis (MSW)--Chinese University of Hong Kong. / Bibliography: leaves 197-203.

Shum Hoi Ying. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-168). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.i / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iii / CONTENTS --- p.v / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Research background / Chapter 1.1.1 --- The importance of group characteristics in designing an effective empowering mechanism / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Community currency as an empowering mechanism for the powerless poor / Chapter 1.2 --- Research objectives: To reveal the effectiveness of community currency in generating empowerment for the urban poor / Chapter 1.3 --- Research significance / Chapter 1.3.1 --- Theoretical significance / Chapter 1.3.2 --- Practical significance / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- Literature review --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1 --- Paying attention to the powerless poor in the city / Chapter 2.1.1 --- The multi-dimensional understanding of urban poverty / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Economic restructuring and social polarization / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Urban poverty in Hong Kong 一 in the context of economic restructuring / Chapter 2.2 --- Community currency as an empowering mechanism for the poor / Chapter 2.2.1 --- The importance of community building / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Empowering the poor using community currency - the experience of other countries / Chapter 2.3 --- Understanding the empowerment of individuals / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The concept of empowerment - -An overview / Chapter 2.3.2 --- The conceptualization of empowerment at the individual level / Chapter 2.3.3 --- The organizational characteristics of an empowering mechanism / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- Research framework --- p.39 / Chapter 3.1 --- Inspirations from the literature / Chapter 3.2 --- Research questions / Chapter 3.3 --- Analytical framework - Studying the effectiveness of community currency as an empowering mechanism / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- Research methodology / Chapter 4.1 --- Research design / Chapter 4.2 --- Data Sources / Chapter 4.2.1 --- In-depth interviews / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Participant observation / Chapter 4.3 --- Subject selections / Chapter 4.4 --- Core questions for interviews / Chapter 4.5 --- Methods of data analysis / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- Understanding the Community Oriented Mutual Economy (COME) --- p.49 / Chapter 5.1 --- The context for the foundation of COME in Hong Kong / Chapter 5.1.1 --- The economic context / Chapter 5.1.2 --- The community context / Chapter 5.1.3 --- The organizational context / Chapter 5.2 --- The participants of COME - the powerless urban poor in Hong Kong / Chapter 5.3 --- The general description of COME / Chapter 5.3.1 --- The basic objectives of COME / Chapter 5.3.2 --- The functional structure of COME / Chapter 5.3.3 --- The exchanges in COME / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- The effect of COME in empowering the poor --- p.64 / Chapter 6.1 --- The empowerment outcomes at individual level / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Intrapersonal empowerment / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Interactional empowerment / Chapter 6.1.3 --- Behavioral empowerment / Chapter 6.2 --- Explaining the effects of COME in empowering the poor with its organizational characteristics / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Low degree of organizational regulation / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Group based belief system / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Multiple opportunity role structure / Chapter 6.2.4 --- Peer based support system / Chapter 6.2.5 --- Shared leadership with commitment / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- The constraints of COME in empowering the poor --- p.103 / Chapter 7.1 --- The constraint on raising the critical awareness of the participants / Chapter 7.2 --- The constraint on the development of diversified skills / Chapter 7.3 --- The constraint on encouraging organizational participation / Chapter CHAPTER 8 --- Conclusion --- p.113 / Chapter 8.1 --- Summary of findings / Chapter 8.2 --- Understanding the effectiveness of community currency as an empowering mechanism for the poor / Chapter 8.2.1 --- Theoretical implications / Chapter 8.2.2 --- Practical implications / Chapter 8.3 --- Methodological implications / Chapter 8.4 --- Suggestions for further research / Chapter 8.5 --- Outlook and vision / APPENDICES / Appendix A: Tables / "Table I Employment distribution by industrial sectors for the years of 1997, 2001 and 2002" --- p.124 / Table II Percentage of the working population in different industries by monthly income from main employment of in the year of 2001 --- p.125 / Table III Unemployment rate by previous industry from 1993 to 2003 --- p.126 / Table IV Underemployment rate by previous industry from 1993 to 2003 --- p.127 / Table V Unemployment rate by previous occupation from 1993 to 2003 --- p.128 / Table VI Underemployment rate by previous occupation from 1993 to 2003 --- p.129 / Table VII General profiles of respondents (Participants) --- p.130 / Table VIII General profiles of respondents (St. James Staff) --- p.132 / Table IX Number of members in each functional division of COME --- p.133 / Table X The summary of exchange of the respondents --- p.134 / Table XI The intrapersonal empowerment of participants --- p.136 / Table XII The interactional empowerment of participants --- p.138 / Table XIII The behavioral empowerment of participants --- p.141 / Appendix B: Documents / Document I Core questions for the interviews --- p.143 / Document II The basic objectives of COME --- p.146 / Document III Admission procedures for individual members --- p.148 / Document IV The operation of exchange in COME --- p.149 / Document V Membership characteristics --- p.152 / Document VI The operations and functions of each functional division --- p.156 / Appendix C: Figure / Figure I Organizational chart of COME --- p.159 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.160

譚超羣. / "2011年8月". / "2011 nian 8 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-209). / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Tan Chaoquan. / Chapter 第一章 --- 緖論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 職主題：動機、背景、方法與目的 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節 --- 相關研究的回顧與探討 --- p.2 / Chapter 第三節 --- 論文結構 --- p.16 / Chapter 第二章 --- 地域社會的概述 --- p.19 / Chapter 第一節 --- 蠻荒印記：東莞的歷史與地域沿革 --- p.19 / Chapter 第二節 --- 地域稱謂的由來、自然環境與經濟作物 --- p.25 / Chapter 第三節 --- 珠江三角洲的墾發及清代的人口變動 --- p.34 / Chapter 第四節 --- 茶山和南社的地緣簡述 --- p.48 / Chapter 第五節 --- 小結 --- p.52 / Chapter 第三章 --- 危難和對應：明季清初的寇變和奴變 --- p.53 / Chapter 第一節 --- 從「奴僕」到「義男」：法律上合法性與合理性的對應策略 --- p.56 / Chapter 第二節 --- 明清交替之危難：寇變與奴變 --- p.60 / Chapter 第三節 --- 甲申年之寇變與奴變：南社謝氏宗族的對應方略 --- p.71 / Chapter 第四節 --- 築砦守禦：地域社會的對應措施 --- p.79 / Chapter 第五節 --- 小結 --- p.85 / Chapter 第四章 --- 南社謝氏宗族的建構 --- p.91 / Chapter 第一節 --- 族譜溯源的要領：夤緣攀附 --- p.92 / Chapter 第二節 --- 謝氏大宗祠的創建與重修：公共財產的管理和價值取向 --- p.109 / Chapter 第三節 --- 祖墳的歷史意識：馳與墓誌銘之實例剖析 --- p.126 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 --- p.137 / Chapter 第五章 --- 地方菁英與宗族建構之關係 --- p.140 / Chapter 第一節 --- 何謂「地方菁英」 --- p.141 / Chapter 第二節 --- 「明遺民」謝重華：建構以儒教為理想的宗族精神 --- p.143 / Chapter 第三節 --- 宗族的功名：無窮的資本 --- p.154 / Chapter 第四節 --- 功名和紳董:清季宗族的改變 --- p.162 / Chapter 第五節 --- 晚清南社謝氏力拒袓墳搬遷事件 167 第六節 小結 --- p.172 / Chapter 第六章 --- 結論 --- p.174 / 附錄 --- p.179 / 參考書目 --- p.195

Academic studies tend to focus on environmental and economics aspects in achieving sustainability. This paper emphasizes the social sustainability aspect from the angle of building community capacity. Community capacity can be viewed as readiness for empowerment, a prerequisite condition for greater social equity and social justice leading to inter- and intra-generation equity. A community capacity building framework is derived from the existing literatures to guide the analysis of four communities to assess the current status of the community capacity in Guangdong by conducting interviews and survey. It is found that the community capacity is relatively low and residents are lack of proactivity in contributing to community development if they are living in a comfort neighborhood; more professional social workers are needed to support capacity building. / published_or_final_version / Environmental Management / Master / Master of Science in Environmental Management

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration