ABSTRACT

This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.

The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the forest of towers are in fact vertical culs de sac; and how the city might become truly ‘volumetric’ with mixed activities through multiple levels and 3D movement networks incorporating ‘town cubes’ rather than town squares.

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chapter 1|21 pages

A State of IntenCity

chapter 2|18 pages

Precedents

chapter 4|31 pages

Massing and Rising: The Post-War Decades

chapter 5|11 pages

Vertical and Volumetric: Post 1980

chapter 6|21 pages

Podium and Tower

chapter 7|24 pages

Emerging Volumetric: Components

chapter 8|10 pages

Conclusion: Vertical and Volumetric