stack (v.)
[transitive, intransitive] to arrange objects neatly in a pile; to be arranged in this way

The layers of The Stack, some continental in scale and others microscopic, work in specific relation to the layer above and below it.

If you start looking for them, “ stacks ” are everywhere.

Millions of people live within a 10-minute walk of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong’s most important natural asset and the very reason the city exists in the first place. But most of them would have a hard time finding their way to the shore past the roadways and fences that divide it from the city. Even if they make their way through that obstacle course, they will quickly discover that 60 percent of the harbourfront is off-limits to the public.

“And when you’re there, there’s very little to keep you there,” says urban planner Peter Cookson-Smith, who has watched the harbour change through land reclamation and development since he moved to Hong Kong in the early 1970s.