City Hijack Tactics & Influences

[THESIS STATEMENT] According to Hong Kong Public Space Initiative, public space can be defined as “an area where everyone, regardless of his or her background, can enter without prerequisite”1. Under this statement, good public space is always space that includes

City-scape for FDHs

Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDHs) have been serving the Hong Kong community and the number of workers is increasing constantly. Some of them are treated badly and lived in very small spaces in their employers’ homes. They can relieve from their

Body in Ornamental Waters

Undoubtedly Hong Kong, formed with an peninsula and islands, has always been closely related to the waters. Fishery, dockyard industry and shipping logistics were major anchors of Hong Kong’s social and urban development . The relationship between people and water

Urban Landscape for the People

Lefebvre suggests that historically developed society would form its distinctive social space that could reflect its economy and social ecology. Hong Kong is full of its cultural geography. But the Government is creating “fake landscape” that wipes out the original