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    The document announces a book launch event for the book "Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook" by Adam Frampton, Jonathan D Solomon, and Clara Wong. The book explores how Hong Kong has no ground plane physically due to its steep slopes and culturally due to lack of concept of ground, distorting spatial relationships. The book takes readers through Hong Kong's vast interior pedestrian network where one can travel for miles without touching the ground.

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    The document announces a book launch event for the book "Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook" by Adam Frampton, Jonathan D Solomon, and Clara Wong. The book explores how Hong Kong has no ground plane physically due to its steep slopes and culturally due to lack of concept of ground, distorting spatial relationships. The book takes readers through Hong Kong's vast interior pedestrian network where one can travel for miles without touching the ground.

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    The document announces a book launch event for the book "Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook" by Adam Frampton, Jonathan D Solomon, and Clara Wong. The book explores how Hong Kong has no ground plane physically due to its steep slopes and culturally due to lack of concept of ground, distorting spatial relationships. The book takes readers through Hong Kong's vast interior pedestrian network where one can travel for miles without touching the ground.

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    Architectural Association School of Architecture

    Book launch AA Bookshop

    Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook, Adam Frampton, Jonathan D Solomon, Clara Wong Published by ORO Editions Book launch Launch price 16 Thursday 21 February 6.308.30pm

    Author Adam Frampton will present the book followed by a discussion with Thomas Wensing and Joris Fach.
    Hong Kong is a city without ground. This is true both physically (built on steep slopes, the city has no ground plane) and culturally (there is no concept of ground). Density obliterates gure-ground in the city, and in turn redenes public-private spatial relationships. Perception of distance and time is distorted through compact networks of pedestrian infrastructure, public transport and natural topography in the urban landscape. In Cities Without Ground, Adam Frampton, Jonathan D Solomon, and Clara Wong take you through the vast interior public world of Hong Kongs pedestrian street network. With this guide you can travel for miles and miles without ever touching the ground: an interior world superimposed on the city. In an age of rapid urbanization and unstable climate, might this be a model for the future? Volume Magazine

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