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• BEDLAM : Listening Instruments
  BEDLAM (ˈbɛdləm) -n 1. a noisy confused place or situation. […]
• Infographic: Remembering Kowloon Walled City | South China Morning Post
  Kowloon Walled City, located not far from the former Kai Tak Airport, was a remarkable high-rise squatter camp that by the 1980s had 50,000 residents. A historical accident of colonial Hong Kong, it existed in a lawless vacuum until it became an embarrassment for Britain. This month marks the 20th anniversary of its demolition. […]
• Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook (3D Maps)
  Without a ground, there can be no figure either. In fact, Hong Kong lacks any of the traditional figure-ground relationships that shape urban space: axis, edge, center, even fabric. Cities Without Ground explores this condition by mapping three-dimensional circulation networks that join shopping malls, train stations and public transport interchanges, public […]
• Cities Without Ground: a guidebook to Hong Kong's elevated walkways | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
  Hong Kong: "built on an intricate network of elevated bridges and submerged tunnels, aerial walkways and suspended passages. The platforms of transport hubs meld into labyrinthine malls, which in turn bleed into office lobbies. Branches of stairs and escalators continuously connect onwards and upwards, to the extent that you're never quite sure wha […]
• ScienceDirect.com - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems - Positional accuracy, positional uncertainty, and feature change detection in historical maps: Results of an experiment
  In this article we propose a methodology for detecting the positional inaccuracy and positional uncertainty of measurements of urban change using historical maps at a very high spatial resolution (the building). A widely accepted and routinely employed method for detecting urban change, and spatial change in general, consists in overlaying two or more maps c […]