Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- PART 1: Contexts -- Introduction -- Hong Kong Terra Infirma: A City's Defiance of Its Slippery Slopes -- Between the In-between: Research Findings on Data-Driven Strategic Urban Design -- On Imported Planning Policies: Adaptability and Resilience of a Small Public Open Space Typology -- Ambiguous Topologies of Public Open Space in Hong Kong: Stairs, Alleyways, Sitting-out Areas, Parks, Playgrounds, Privately Owned Public Spaces and Vacant Lots -- Reassembling the Case Study: Critical Analysis and Design Production in the Studio -- PART 2: Cases -- Index -- Lapse -- Misfit -- Rift -- Littoral -- Gap -- Lacuna -- Authors -- Acknowledgments