Geographically Yours

Just think how heavy they would be if filled with water! Just think how much smaller the ecological footprint would be if they were fille...

Three continents are here united: Asia, South America, and Europe. From Asia, comes the customer. From South America, comes the potato. F...

At the moment, he's dealing with inventory, not customers. He doesn't have to be at his best, his friendliest, his smiliest. He d...

Suburbs are simply not urban: That's why we call them SUBurbs. Real cities are very urban: mixed-use developments at the mega-scale w...

The stars of Victoria Harbor are the ferry boats: often dressed to impress. You don't have to squint to see this one coming. Just thi...

All that remains of the old Hong Kong Railway station is the clock tower. One hundred years ago, the station was built to connect Victori...

The Arch celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The archway itself permits dragons from the hills on the mainland side of Hong Kong t...

Here's some applied color theory along Nathan Road. Blue and green are grouped together in traditional Chinese culture as qing;  it r...

There is nowhere to go but up in Hong Kong, a city defined by its high-rise skyline . The more storeys you can pile on top of each other,...

You know you're not in Kansas anymore when gazebos start looking like Chinese temples. In a city like Hong Kong, with a population de...

Office workers in Hong Kong come down from their urban high-rises and emerge into the country, where landscapes are green, and reminders ...

The fragrant harbour isn't so fragrant any more, but the urban landscape looks tidy and almost inviting from this perspective. Just t...

If you brought in some anthropologists of the future to pick through corner culture off Nathan Road in Hong Kong, what would they conclud...

Bilingual signage is typical of Hong Kong. So is Closed-Circuit TV. The pictogram in the middle might as well be the logo of the urban wo...

On one side of Victoria Harbour is high-rise Hong Kong Island, on the other is high-rise Kowloon. With a population almost as large as Vi...

High rises occupy most of the space on, off, and over Nathan Road, the backbone of Hong Kong's Kowloon Peninsula. Yet, some corners h...

The former Marine Police Headquarters building has become a target of adaptive reuse. It was lucky to survive the wrecking ball judging f...

Leafy greens are a part of every street market in China. When you see so much of the same vegetable lining the street, you know it's ...

In most cities a building of 699 feet in height would be the tallest in town. But, in Hong Kong, it ranks Victoria Towers as only the 35t...

Hong Kong is one of the world's great high-rise cities, and the high-rises are getting ever higher. It's easy to go vertical on t...