Hong Kong is one of those places, alongside Singapore and Manhattan, that often gets cited as a failure of urbanism — an overdose of density, an example of what you don’t want your city to look like. But there’s a reason Hong Kong is like this, and why other cities probably won’t end up the same way. We should stop using Hong Kong as our density punching bag.

References

2021 Hong Kong census (select "Major Housing Estates"): https://www.census2021.gov.hk/en/district_profiles.html Estimate of Hong Kong density for developed area: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/room-to-grow-comparing-urban-density-in-canada-and-abroad.pdf Home size by country: https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house/

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