> Appearance and availability are completely uncoupled here. Your evidence for this is that prices are extremely high. But you have no evidence that prices wou

> Appearance and availability are completely uncoupled here. Your evidence for this is that prices are extremely high. But you have no evidence that prices wouldn't be even higher if purely aesthetic constraints were imposed on development that had nothing to do with utility or quality. Moreover, that's not even relevant to the main problem with the focus on aesthetics. You're right I don't know much about the HK situation, but where I'm from, aesthetics is one of the top two excuses that landowners use to lobby the government to block new housing.