Who is emphasized in the interpretation?
We thinks that it emphasizes on the effort and importance of government and the management company in the transformation of the building, as well as their contributions on making the PMQ project successful.
However, it ignores the involvement of people from below since we could not find anything that related to this issue addressed by PMQ. In fact, before the revitalization, the government was going to auction the land without any archaeological excavation and cultural evaluation. But, the Central and Western Concern Group noticed the issue, and strongly required the government to do evaluation. The government accepted, but disclosed nothing about the excavation which was low in transparency, so the group monitored the process at the opposite side of PMQ. Because of the results of excavation, the government gave up the original plan and invited people to submit revitalization proposals [1]. Later, it is included in the “Conserving Central”. Hence, we could find that the role of local community in preserving the building is de-emphasized.
Reference:
[1]〈探射燈:推廣不力 糟蹋孫中山足跡〉,東方日報,2014-04-19,
<http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20140419/00176_111.html>【檢索日期:2014-11-30】。
We thinks that it emphasizes on the effort and importance of government and the management company in the transformation of the building, as well as their contributions on making the PMQ project successful.
However, it ignores the involvement of people from below since we could not find anything that related to this issue addressed by PMQ. In fact, before the revitalization, the government was going to auction the land without any archaeological excavation and cultural evaluation. But, the Central and Western Concern Group noticed the issue, and strongly required the government to do evaluation. The government accepted, but disclosed nothing about the excavation which was low in transparency, so the group monitored the process at the opposite side of PMQ. Because of the results of excavation, the government gave up the original plan and invited people to submit revitalization proposals [1]. Later, it is included in the “Conserving Central”. Hence, we could find that the role of local community in preserving the building is de-emphasized.
Reference:
[1]〈探射燈:推廣不力 糟蹋孫中山足跡〉,東方日報,2014-04-19,
<http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20140419/00176_111.html>【檢索日期:2014-11-30】。