Kubrick Poetry • July • Tales from a Contested City

時間 Time：2025/7/13 (Sunday) 3:00pm-4:00pm
地點 Venue：Auditorium (1/F) in Broadway Cinematheque
主持 Moderator: Polly Ho
作家 Writer：Peter Cookson Smith
語言Language：English
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These 33 tales from the contested city of Hong Kong (Proverse Hong Kong) provocatively reflect its often confounding and contentious history and personality. They range from narratives of real life to the largely inventive; from the serious to the satirical. Past, present and future are imaginatively intertwined in a variety of situations which explore the city's underlying chemistry. The tales illuminate many corners of the urban experience, sometimes injected with the necessary dose of congeniality mixed with occasional melancholy which is embedded in the city's life force.


This is Peter’s first book of fiction. In this session, we will shed light into the tales and the original thought and history behind the tales.


Peter Cookson Smith is a long-time resident of Hong Kong. In 1977 he founded URBIS – one of the first specialist city-planning, urban-design and environmental consultancies in South-east Asia. He directed some of the first new town and urban regeneration studies in Hong Kong and has directed an extensive range of projects across Asia. For several years he was an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Past-President of both the Hong Kong Institute of Planners and the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design. He writes and lectures widely on the subject of urban design, and is the author and illustrator of eight books: The Urban Design of Impermanence (2006) about Hong Kong; The Urban Design of Concession (2011) about the growth and development of Chinese Treaty Port cities, The Urban Design of Intervention (2014) about Asian cities and more.

Blog: https://kubrickpoems.blogspot.com/

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