Campus
The main Kowloon Tong campus, the Festival Walk connection, the Pak Shek Kok residence village and the Dongguan campus, plus the residence system under a no-college structure.
05 Campus Geography · Architecture · Ecology
7 articlesCampus geography, a directory of buildings, transport facilities, sustainability, plus museums and ecology.
Festival Walk Link Bridge and Campus Entrances: How CityU’s “Shopping Mall as Entrance Portal” Came to Be
CityU’s main campus has no conventional gate; staff and students use the Festival Walk link bridge as their entrance portal. This article examines how it emerged from a former bus terminus to a mall built next to the university, and how it has shaped campus access and lifestyle.
Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (Block P / Academic 1) — CityU's Main Building and the Hub of Its Library
A giant main building of over 60,000 square metres, so vast you need a colour-coded system to find your way — how it acquired the name of a mobile-glass cover manufacturer more than three decades after it was numbered, and how a concourse linked to Festival Walk sustains CityU's daily circulation. This is its individual dossier.
Campus Landmarks — Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre and Lau Ming Wai Academic Building
Three CityU landmarks of starkly contrasting character — the Yeung Kin Man Academic Building carries daily teaching and research with its sheer size and five-colour zoning and houses the Run Run Shaw Library; the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre is a facetted crystal by Daniel Libeskind; and the Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, the tallest on campus, houses the Indra and Harry Banga Gallery on the 18th floor.
CityU Architecture, Green Campus and Net-Zero Carbon Infrastructure
CityU's architecture has moved from the functionalist megaliths of the 1990s to Libeskind's crystalline landmark, then to modular solar-equipped residences; its green campus — rooftop permaculture, a tree inventory and the CLPe campus-wide solar partnership — underpins a net-zero vision validated by a world-first in THE's SDG 9 and 234th place in QS Sustainability.
CityU Campus Location, Geographic Zoning and Building Directory
CityU's main campus is "stacked" above the Festival Walk shopping centre, pressed against MTR Kowloon Tong station and organised internally by colour zones; from the 1984 temporary Mong Kok premises to the 1990 move to Kowloon Tong and the 2024 multi-site extension to Ma On Shan Whitehead and Dongguan Songshan Lake, with a directory of major buildings.
Student Residence System and the Lee Shau Kee Student Residence Village
CityU has no college system; housing is organised around centrally administered halls of residence. The Lee Shau Kee Student Residence Village at Whitehead, Ma On Shan, opened in 2024, set a record as the "world's largest modular student residence" with over 1,300 modules; its namesake, Lee Shau Kee, died in 2025.
Transport & Facilities — The Festival Walk Link, Sports Centre, and Everyday Campus Amenities
CityU enjoys rare "dual-line metro + large mall" accessibility through MTR Kowloon Tong station and Festival Walk; the "Time Tunnel" link between them, used by over sixty thousand people a day, has passed through four spatial-history milestones — the 1993 land auction, the 1998 opening, its 2025 renovation into the "Tunnel of Future Innovations", and CityU's 2026 purchase of the Festival Walk office tower.
10 Colleges / Residence Colleges · Halls · General education
4 articlesThe history, character and traditions of colleges/residential colleges and hall culture.
CityU Has No College System — Halls, Residential Education and the Academic "Colleges
CityU has no CUHK-style college system; residence runs on the hall system — 11 halls plus Jockey Club House, joined in 2024 by the Lee Shau Kee Student Residence Village in Ma On Shan; split from an older merged card, this entry focuses on the hall system itself.
Decoding "College" at CityUHK — The Naming and Nature of the University's Academic Faculties
CityUHK's "College" means an academic faculty, not a residential college; this card maps the naming, founding dates and structure of CityUHK's seven Colleges and four Schools, compares naming conventions across Hong Kong universities, and points to the Hall system card for residential matters.
The Business School" as an Institutional Entity — Governance and the Triple-Crown Question at CityU's College of Business
Founded in 1990, CityU's College of Business was once the first triple-accredited business school in Greater China; this article unpacks its dean-led governance, six-department structure, triple-crown accreditation history, deanship transition, and research rankings — and fact-checks the "triple crown" status today.
The Birth of the College of Computing (2024) — CityU's College Reorganisation and an Organisational Choice for the AI Era
CityU established the College of Computing in September 2024, merging computer science, data science and biostatistics under one roof, with Jianping Wang as founding dean — a strategic-level reorganisation in response to the demand for interdisciplinary talent in the AI era.