bourdieu_boy ([info]bourdieu_boy) wrote,
@ 2008-03-15 21:19:00
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Hong Kong
I stopped in Hong Kong on my way to Taipei yesterday to take up a long-standing offer to have a local's view of the city. Hong Kong is a place I have been to more times that I can remember but somewhere I never feel I have had a chance to get to know.


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Hong Kong island from the Star Ferry terminal. Duh.



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The People's Bookshop coffeeshop in Causeway Bay. Maoist kitch/po-mo cool, Hong Kong style. The Little Red Book is actually the menu.



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The New Territories.


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The new MTR line that runs to the New Territories. Makes just about every other subway system in the world look 19th century.


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[info]mordwen
2008-03-16 01:15 am UTC (link)
It's just so.... city-ish. And I'm so *not* a city chick.

The high-rises freak me out. I know, what a hippie...

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[info]bourdieu_boy
2008-03-16 03:37 am UTC (link)
I have never felt very warm toward Hong Kong, although having someone local show you around makes a big difference. I much prefer Taipei, despite its own idiosyncrasies. The New Territories in Hong Kong is certainly odd, with those huge apartment buildings. There is a kind of extreme pragmatism to the urban environment. But it's well designed. There are big distances between pedestrian and car spaces, lots of green space, and it's very clean, amazing public transport. A much easier place to live than London, that's for sure.

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