Dear members
In Hong Kong’s history, which dates back to 1842, there used to be a common description of it as "a barren rock with nary a house upon it." While this description may not have been historically accurate, it is a useful expression that I took as a point of departure for my talk “From Barren Rock to Metropolis; to Greener, Smarter and Happier”, on 25 April, for Hong Kong Metropolitan University’s lecture series “Talk of the Metropolis”. The slides of the talk can be found
here.