Revitalizing the urban life: Design a three-dimensional public space system by combining top-down and bottom-up approaches through serious gaming in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, China

City Complexity: Images of Hong Kong Culture and Space in Movies

Hong Kong is full of complexities in its culture and space, showing in the movies. The clear imageability allows it presents itself through city structures, landmarks, and architectural objects in the city, playing a vital role for people to recognize and be impressed. In addition to the spatial aspect, the cultural complexities undoubtedly...

Stimulate utilization and social interaction in physical public space through the implementation of digital technology: The case of Hong Kong

Urban redevelopment in the old Kai Tak area: Shading Kowloon City, Hong Kong

Create a system to re-organise public space in Kowloon City, Hong Kong - reduce the fragmentation of open spaces - connect different microcosmos to the ‘whole’ -highlight the qualities of public space the space ‘in between’ -allow the dynamics to invade Kai Tak

Sublime & Heterotopic Landscapes

In the ever superlative city of Hong Kong the question has been posed of a, what if, after unification? An hypothetical redevelopment into a university city with the side effect of a morphological intervention on a new typology based university. The building is designed with the two specific research concepts in mind of a Kantian Sublime and an...

Thinking Shanghai: A Foucauldian Interrogation of the Postsocialist Metropolis

This work is an investigation into Shanghai’s role in the twenty-first century as it attempts to rejoin the global city network. It also examines the effects this move is having on the city, its people, and its public spaces. Shanghai’s intention to turn itself into the New York of Asia is not succeeding, in fact the city might be better trying...