According to this statistics, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated place in the world. Fact is, it should have ascended to the winner's throne since a large part of the territory is designated as country park where no development is allowed. Take for example our most densely populated district, Kwun Tong. Its population density is a terrifying 54 530 persons per square kilometre as at 2010 (For comparison, world’s most densely populated Macau has 19 610 per square kilometre). Today’s shot of a typical old residential tenement building in Kwun Tong gives a glimpse of how crowded the place is. Such tenement buildings of five to six storeys are mostly built before the Second World War and are therefore generally known as pre-War buildings.
(Grip On Reality: This photo was taken on my way to work. I was walking past trucks parking on a cul-de-sac when the ropes caught my attention. The light was right, the colour was right and the criss-crossing pattern was perfect and I held up my GX200. People passing by checked me out and wondered what could be made out of such a boring scene. To me, the fun in photography is that the photographer makes something interesting out of what is not obvious to most at the scene. The ropes tied in knots somehow reminded people I know who are in the grip of the recession) You must have also known a friend or two, or even yourself, being baffled by the spiral downturn of the economy. Bank went bankrupt and the rich was faced with a shrinking wealth. A friend of mine has just had his salary cut by over 10% and some of his colleagues started to be shed. But, wait. Was this done really for the sake of continuing the business? Or is there a factor or greed in it? I wonder whether the
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