Table Of ContentCities Without Ground
A Hong Kong Guidebook
Adam Frampton
lonathan D Solomon
Clara Wong
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Cma.i ties Without Ground
Adam Frampton,lonathanaan fD~ S~~ olto mon, CPatl ara gWar ong
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Aa ssis. tants: Mark Berlinrut, Kenneth lp,Gweny lin,
Gigi Lau, Margie Tam, Rebecca Wang, Joey Yim
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Contents Ss
Ground
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Solids
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Connectivity. ...24
Activity .......30
Guidebook 34
Shun Tak Centre &Sheung Wan..... 36
IFC &Excha nge Sq ua re ... . . . * * * * * . . . . . . . . . . . * . . * * * * . * * * . * . . . * . 58-——- —
Centra I 40—_—_—
Central I'r1arket 42
Graham Street &Soho.... 44
Admiralty 46
Victoria Pea k 48
Wan Cl lal ee ee ee er ees 50
lLy oes ceksh areetd. (PRteo ad BteM uniehc ipalimaS ervic. es mBonusioltdei ng 5ch2
Causeway Bay 54
Taikoo Shing &Qua rry Bay 56
Cyberport... 5BR B
University of Hong Kong 60
Chek Lap Kok Airport 62
Ngong Ping 64
Olympic. 66
West Kowloon.... 68
Tsim Sha Tsui West 70
Tsim Sha Tsui East 72
Hung Hom 74
Temple Street 76
Ir4ong Kok 7B
lr/ong Kok East &Bird Street.. 80
Ap Liu Street 82
Kowloon Tong 84
Sai Kung.. 86
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Kai Tak 90
Tsuen Wan 92
Sha Tin . 94
Lo Wu &Luo Hu.. 96
Liantang &Heung Yuen Wai 9B
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Avsalseeciacs ti Sls See ee 49
Acknowledgements See eee eee OO ROR eee eee ee REE EEE EE EEE 124
Credits TREO HeE Ee E ER R EE EOEEOEHEE eee ...125 —
lndex of Public Space inPrivate Developments..... .....126
lndex of ActivitiesSRR HEHEHE DEERE EERE HEHEHE HEE EERE EERE HE .......121
Legend ...128
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Ground
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its complexity and seemingly chaotic organization. AA ftst er a
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few weeks, the city gradually reveals itself to be remarkably
functional. Distances that seemed vast experientially turn
out to be compact geographically. Crowds that appear to
teem ambiguously turn out to move with well-choreographed1ed
intent. Apparently innumerable buses and trains arrive and
depart with such remarkable dependability that you always
end up just where you need to be.'
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Urbanism inHong Kong is a result of a combination
of top-down planning and bottom-up solutions, a
unique collaboration between pragmatic thinking and
comprehensive masterplanning, played out inthree-
dimensional space. Footbridge networks throughout the city
that grew piecemeal, built by different parties at different
times to serve different immediate needs, eventually formed
an extensive network and became a prevailing development
model for the city's large-scale urban projects.
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Ground is a continuous plane and a stable reference
point. ltis the surface on which the conflicts of urban
propinquity: public and private, planned and impromptu,
privileged and disadvantaged, are worked out. ln cities
like New York, great cultural significance is placed in
being on the spatial ground, and infrastructural solutions:
platforms and tunnels are deployed to keep the ground
continuous. ln other places, cultural activity - commerce,
entertainment, public program - may continue well above
the ground plane. ln Tokyo, Shinjuku station extends an
entire district underground; while restaurants and bars fill
skyscrapers above the ground. The ground plane remains
a reference point for cultural life. Hong Kong enhances
three-dimensional connectivity to such a degree that it
eliminates reference to the ground altogether. Hong Kong
is a city without ground...
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