Justin Hui is an architect, artist and photographer who researches topics of land development, borders, globalization and memory. His recent projects are New Territories, which explores the changing landscape of Hong Kong’s northern frontier, and Urban Africa, Made in China, which tracks the phenomenon of Chinese companies constructing infrastructure and buildings across Africa, modeled after China’s urban development.
Show Notes
Intro/Outro: “Territories” by Rush
Discussed:
- Hong Kong’s New Territories: Northern Metropolis and Lantau Island
- Greater Bay Area
- MTR
- Belt and Road Initiative
- China’s Debt-Driven Construction Binge > Skyscraper Ban
- TAZARA Railway – Dar es Salaam to the Zambian Copper Belt
- China in Africa - colonialism or globalization?
- Africa’s Urban Future: “Made in China”
- Gated cities in Angola and Kenya
- Exporting Special Economic Zones (SEZs) > Zambia
- Made in China > Made in Africa, Mexico
- You get what you pay for
- Vincent Lo – Shui On Group
- Ronnie Chan -- Hang Lung Group - 66 Projects
- The podium + tower model as export commodity, rising in Long Island City, Flushing and Jersey City
- Hudson Yards is very analogous to a Asian shopping mall
- Steven Holl - Sliced Porosity - Chengdu
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