An urban caricature

[Statement] There is undoubtedly an emergence of a massive spree for luxury goods at all levels that triumphant in infesting and changing the role of shopping and its impacts on urban living. The thesis represents a tectonic inquiry on those

Urban Caricature

[Suffocated city] In shopping districts of a city like Hong Kong, the city scene largely composed of retail programmes and the related shopping activities. Therefore, when the main group of shopper changes, the city responds and changes as well. In

Street Algorithm: the vertical dimension

[Background] With a rapid expansion in tourism, especially since the implementation of the Individual Visit Scheme in 2003, the increasing number of visitors had generated dominant, pin-pointed demand on luxurious goods. In areas such as Causeway Bay and Mongkok, tourists

Ground Invasion

[Background] With the implementation of the Individual Visit Scheme in July 2003, the increasing number of mainland visitors had generated a dominant, pin-pointed demand on luxurious goods. In areas such as Causeway Bay and Mongkok, mainland tourists oriented shops had

Collaging urban totality

As described in Ito’s and Fujimoto’s essays, people are leading a life of an android, where daily life has been broken into merely fragments of images that scattered in urban life. Restaurants become the dinning room, shopping malls become the