by admin | Nov 19, 2021
Inevitably, a view from a 30th-floor window is different to that from the second floor. But how do you monitor the benefits of either? In the time of COVID-19, ‘view health’ is particularly important as going outside may be restricted. Now a technological window of...
by admin | May 12, 2021
Numerous studies have reported the mental health benefits of contact with green landscapes. However, the mechanistic and neural bases of why such landscapes drive positive mental health outcomes have remained poorly understood until now. “This study uses functional...
by admin | May 12, 2021
More than 200 military relics from World War II (WWII) are scattered around Hong Kong, including gun batteries, pillboxes (PBs), the air raid tunnels now housing the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence at Shau Kei Wan, as well as fortifications along the Gin Drinker’s...
by admin | Nov 8, 2020
In 1956 a giant iron and steel factory opened in Wuhan that was so important Mao Zedong visited it twice. Tellingly, the plant was situated in the centre of the city – an example of socialist city planning that places factories and giant squares at the centre of civic...
by | May 3, 2020
The five-year programme marks the beginning of a collaborative research partnership between HKU and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Republic of Armenia’s National Academy of Sciences, as well as multiple cross-faculty collaborations within...
