https://www.scmp.com/rss/328880/feed Lam Chiu Ying was director of the Hong Kong Observatory before retirement. He is currently an adjunct professor of the Geography and Resource Management Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and chairman of the Hong Kong Countryside Foundation. He is also an honorary fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The Task Force on Land Supply, a team appointed by the Hong Kong government to spearhead the city’s desperate search for land, lists a 1,000-hectare artificial island east of Lantau as a land option, housing up to 700,000 people. Our Hong Kong Foundation has lately advocated even more grandiose figures of 2,200 hectares and 1.1 million people, as if they constitute the panacea for all of Hong Kong problems, housing included. But it will take more than a decade to get an island-town built. The... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/hong-kong/article/2167027/island-fear-massive-reclamation-lantau-would-be?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/hong-kong/article/2167027/island-fear-massive-reclamation-lantau-would-be?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:00:00 +0000