Cecilia L. Chu

Cecilia Chu is an associate professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Trained as an urban historian with a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, her works focus on the social and cultural processes that shape the forms and meanings of built environments and their impacts on local communities. She is a co-founder of Docomomo Hong Kong and an editorial member of Journal of Urban History and Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong. She is the author of Building Colonial Hong Kong: Speculative Development and Segregation in the City (Routledge, 2022) and co-editor of The Speculative City: Emergent Forms and Norms of the Built Environment (University of Toronto Press, 2022).