Hong Kong's EcoLivable City "Green is Golden" Belt and Road Opportunity

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

― R. Buckminster Fuller

“All of that is calming, all of that brings us back with nature,” he says.

Architects just don’t have the flexibility to embrace it.

http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2057445/buildings-blend-nature-why-singapore-has-them-abundance-and-hong-kong?utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign=SCMPSocialNewsfeed

Great to see that at least some architects and engineers are beginning to step up to the #Asynsis #EcoLivable City Initiative plate in #HongKong.

What's really needed though (rather than more of what is often just literal "green window-dressing" of individual buildings and only tackling the low hanging fruit of sustainable design - usually due to inadequate industry financial models), is a "First Principles" Elon Musk-scale "Whole City #EcoSystem" design solution - a HK #GreenNewDeal to diversify our entire economy, tapping #GreenFinance while innovating and deploying #GreenTech to gift our moribund economy a new export industry, novel revenue streams and a much-needed Mojo-boost.

This is the best way for us to compete with Singapore while aligning with and leveraging our Super-Connector role in the China #BeltAndRoad initiative, one which has huge potential for Hong Kong, especially if it follows our EcoLivable City innovation and diversification roadmap and model - and then rolls it out all around developing Asia, the Middle-East, Africa and beyond.

So we offer our recent EcoLivable City references, EcoLivable roadmap Op-Ed and String of Pearls/HarbourLoop Renewables-powered, Carbon-offset, Green-financed Decarbonising pilot-project "pathfinder" urban design initiative for Hong Kong and the PRD - as shared on #TED:

https://www.facebook.com/HKEcoLivable

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/18/can-hong-kong-lead-the-way-in-asia-to-a-sustainable-future/

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1677867652436771.1073741829.1676330589257144&type=3

#FormFollowsFlow

Where Greek Beauty meets Chinese Health & Fortune

The Asynsis Φ-Dao of Design: now on TED.com:

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Form-follows-flow-%7C-Nigel-Readi

Asynsis design practice and research thought-leadership (including via TED and UKTI GREAT campaign with RIBA-HK):

http://asynsis.com/archives/4017 (TED)

http://asynsis.com/archives/4038 (UKTI-RIBA)

Media coverage:

http://www.scoop.it/t/asynsis-principle-constructal-law