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Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The City Without Ground
For miles and miles, you can walk through the city
of Hong Kong without ever once putting a foot on
the ground. All day you can get everywhere you
need to go, taking care of any errand you might
have on your list, all while separated from the
streets and surface of the city. This is possible
thanks to the network of elevated walkways and
underground tunnels that have gradually
developed in the city both formally and
informally over the past 50 years.

It's an impressively widespread pedestrian
infrastructure, linking people to the waterfront
city's wide array of transportation options. And as
a forthcoming book contends, it's also a new kind
of civic space and even a new form of citymaking.
Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook,
out in September from ORO Editions, considers the
city through the lens of these above- and below-
ground walkways, creating the
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Greece
Somewhere in Greece...
Yesterday, I received a very nice (digital) postcard
from Anna Barbara. Very nice architectonical
concept, from some lost island in Greece
Thanks Anna.
More about Anna and her work at: http://www.
designwithsenses.it/
first-ever maps showing the extent and variety of
these networks.
Keep reading at: http://m.theatlanticcities.
com/.../hong-kong-city.../3000/
Thanks to Giorgia Lupi for the link.
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Cersaie Bologna Fiera...
Interviewing Bruce Stirling
(Together with Cini Boeri
Btw)
Design goes sci-fi: Cini Boeri and Bruce Sterling. It
will be a nice afternoon, in Bologna at Cersaie.
If you are there, please join.
Here the calendar: http://www.cersaie.
it/en/k_calendario_2012_dett.php?ID=21181
Here some more about Bruce Sterling: http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling
Thanks to Elena Mfoirr for the invite!
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Piazza Cinque Giornate
Before We Had Bruce,
Now ms Cini...
Design goes sci-fi: Cini Boeri and Bruce Sterling. It
will be a nice afternoon, in Bologna at Cersaie.
If you are there, please join.
Here the calendar:
http://www.cersaie.
it/en/k_calendario_2012_dett.php?ID=21181
Here some more about Cini Boeri: http://www.
homelife.com.au/homes/homewares/cini+boeri,
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