“The Chinese do not suffer from the typical European aversion to high-rise building. So let us not dismiss the tower block in Hong Kong as some second rate form of housing, or as some compromised venture whose main purpose is simply top provide housing stock in one of the densest areas of urbanism in the world. No, in Hong Kong the tower block is the prestigious place to live. A place in the sky. The higher, the modern, the better. The same is true throughout China.” Neil Leach