List of Proper Names in English and Their Chinese Original; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Mui Wo, Hong Kong and Globalisation; Globalisation and Power Relations; Finance Capitalism: Immateriality and Speed; Encountering Development in the Age of Global Capitalism; Mui Wo and Alternative Development; References; Chapter 2: Two Tales of a City; Mui Wo, Lantau Island, 2013; The Metropolis; Mui Wo from 1997 to 2013: A Unique Time and Space; To Cry, or Not to Cry? Opening of Tsing Ma Bridge; References; Chapter 3: Techniques of Going Slow: Cycling in Mui Wo; Cycling and Development

Bicycle Technology Going Slow; Techniques; Cycling in Mui Wo; Body Techniques; The Machine; Time-Space Compression; Non-linearity of Progress; Time-Space 'Decompression'?; Sensory Experiences; Human Power; References; Chapter 4: Taking Care of Our Own Waste; Dirt as Matter of Out of Place; Stereotype; Development and Globalisation; Scenery Please, but Not the Smell; Septic Tank; Waste as Creative; 'Surely, the State Is the Sewer'; References; Chapter 5: All Roads Lead to Development or How Small Paths Lead Us Home; The Road; The Road to Development

From Wider Roads to More Expensive Housing More Houses, People and Money; When the Government Intervenes...; 'Government, Government, Government'; Small Paths Lead Us Home; Lived Time; Marginal as Radical; References; Chapter 6: Whose Development? Transnational Capitalism and the Homogenisation of Space; A Facelift Plan; User Responsibilities; Mui Wo in the Metropolis; Alive or Dead? When Capital Penetrates the Land; References; Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Landscape; Capital and Its Discontents; Depression; The Dog Killer Speaks; Reference