The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Hong Kong. the HKU Faculty of Architecture’s HKUrbanLabs  draws together the research and outreach energies of scholars of architecture, conservation, construction management, housing, landscape, planning, real estate, surveying, transport, urban design, urban economics and urban studies. Its collective endeavour is to better understand, plan, design, produce, govern and manage cities of the 21 ^st  century.