Building at the Edge: New York and Hong Kong’s Competing Waterfront Logics

Little Island Park / Heatherwick Studio + MNLA. Image © Timothy SchenckCoastal development in major cities has long been a terrain of opportunity and contention—shaped at once by the pursuit of capital (premium views, scarce land, and the promise of reclamation), by civic demands for public access and collective waterfront life, and by contemporary aspirations for sustainability and place-defining urban identity. Precisely because these agendas rarely align, extracting the full potent