Urbanie & Urbanus

Issue 2026 Jan

AI and Urban Design

https://www.doi.org/10.55412/13.06

Issue 13, P. - P.

Basketball Courts in Hong Kong: A historic and socio-political perspective on social infrastructure in a high-density city

Jeroen van Ameijde

Assistant Professor and Director of the MSc in Urban Design programme at the School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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