50:50 Sovereignty, Price, Density, Efficiency
50:50 Sovereignty, Price, Density, Efficiency – Housing-led Economic Urban Expansion in Hong KongAbstract by Kam-Ming Mark TamHong Kong is an ideal laboratory in which to study relationships between economy and architecture. In this city, tremendous power is held by both the state and in private capital. Urban form may be read as a tangible spatial manifestation both calculated and inadvertent, of a historic model of economic development since its origins as a colonial outpost living in borrowed times....