Chapter 15. Remaking Port Moresby: The Formal Town

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Maps ix
4. Preface x
5. Acknowledgements xv
6. List of Acronyms xvii
7. Introduction. An ‘Informal’ Economic History 1
8. Part I. Economic Informality: An Idea and Its Relevance to Melanesia
9. Chapter 1. Keith Hart and the Idea of Informality 9
10. Chapter 2. Precursors of the Informal Economy 17
11. Chapter 3. Melanesia in the Trade of the Malay Archipelago 26
12. Chapter 4. Melanesian Singularity: Insights from Neoclassical Economics 34
13. Chapter 5. Traditional Trade and Exchange in Papua New Guinea 42
14. Chapter 6. National Capitalism in the Th ree New Guineas 51
15. Part II. From Early Colonization to the Pacific War
16. Chapter 7. German and Australian New Guinea before the Pacific War 59
17. Chapter 8. Chinese in New Guinea before the Pacific War 70
18. Chapter 9. Hubert Murray and the Contending Moralities 83
19. Chapter 10. The Idea of a Town in Anglo-Papua 95
20. Chapter 11. Papuans in Town before the Pacific War 101
21. Chapter 12. Hidden Valleys: A New White Highlands? 113
22. Part III. Informality in the Era of Economic Development
23. Chapter 13. Economic Development: Ideology and Apologetics 121
24. Chapter 14. Obsolescence and the Preconditions for Urbanism 124
25. Chapter 15. Remaking Port Moresby: The Formal Town 137
26. Chapter 16. An Informal Town: Villages and Settlements 145
27. Chapter 17. Reconstruction in Rabaul and the Seeds of Post-war Growth 153
28. Chapter 18. Informal Economy on the Gazelle at the End of the Colonial Era 162
29. Chapter 19. Chinese Enterprise in Rabaul: Apotheosis and Decline 172
30. Chapter 20. Bureaucracy and Market Economy on the Frontier 178
31. Chapter 21. Gorokans and Coffee in the ‘Lucky Place’ 193
32. Chapter 22. Formality and Informality in the Coffee Economy 206
33. Chapter 23. The Triumph of Capitalism? 215
34. Part IV. Birth Pangs: All These Are the Beginning of Sorrows
35. Chapter 24. The Preparatory Idea 225
36. Chapter 25. Hart, Faber and the Informal Economy in Port Moresby 234
37. Chapter 26. An Uneasy Trio of Formality, Informality and Hybridity 244
38. Chapter 27. Dilemmas and Consequences of Urban Growth 255
39. Conclusion 263
40. References 267
41. Index 282