25 February 2009 | Posted inBlog News & Updates
Distance of a mile
Landscapes are one part about living in Asia that continues to amaze us. I recently learned, for instance, that about 75% of Hong Kong is green space. And that Bukit Timah, a patch of urban rainforest just fifteen minutes from our office here in Singapore by cab, has more species of vegetation than all of North America.
Taking a simple, one mile hike this weekend, I began shooting photos of just the ground as it changed so dramatically from one stretch of path to the next. Check it out here.
To my North American eyes, accustom to taking five-mile hikes and not seeing as much, this was a remarkable diversity of terrain packed into one short mile. 
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these are beautiful images, valerie! i’d love to have the originals for use in our collaterals. thanks for sharing!
Valerie,
Great observation and photos. I was speaking about the rainforest/preserved lands and reservoir system of Hong Kong just today. I’ve been thinking of Hong Kong as a model for high density development that is closely linked to the preservation of high quality natural environment (though preservation is a static term). We’ve been introduced to environmental performance standards by the biomimicry guild and it would be very interesting to analyze Hong Kong’s performance in those terms. Thanks for the great posting!
I would have never thought 75% of Hong Kong is green space!?!
great pics, val, and interesting factoids. rachel, i’m sure most of that 75% in HK is on undevelopable slopes and if the developers could legally/safely build on them, they would put 40 storey towers there in a heartbeat!