Uploaded on 2014-12-08 by DB94

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14180054937162629.jpg This photo shows Hong Kong Electric's Lamma Power Station (Coal/gas fired, ~3700MW) which supplies the electricity for all of Hong Kong Island. The power station is sited on the smaller nearby island of Lamma, just off Hong Kong's west coast. Lamma is very rural and home to just ~6,000 residents. With the exception of the power station complex, buildings above 3 storeys and road vehicles are forbidden. This shows the effect/impact of urban infrastructure requirements on the territorial scale. Hong Kong island itself is too densely populated/expensive to site a power station and so a critical piece of infrastructure is instead placed in an extremely rural and natural setting - to the right of the power station you can see a beach which is known locally as 'Power Station beach'. Without the demands of the urban Hong Kong island, this beach would still be (relatively) pristine and untouched with beautiful landscapes, instead of the vast industrial complex that is there now. For a city to expand it requires a certain 'sacrifice' from the hinterland/territory to provide (primarily) land, but also other resources, that are crucial for the urban infrastructure that make a city sustainable.