Stunning photographs of Hong Kong's population density...

[Earth_First]

http://www.demilked.com/architecture-of-density-hong-kong-michael-wolf/

[aaaaaa5a]

1. "Its a concrete jungle out there!" LOL! nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. It's a little bit hard to tell, but the scaffolding in picture #3 is bamboo.

Wonderful pictures!

[rurallib]

3. What is that density?

had to know so I googled:

6,620/km^2

eta: 1,104 km^2 with a population of over 7,000,000

[Aerows]

7. Too many people

in one area. My God I don't know how they stand it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. I'd sure hate to live that way

Heck, I hate living in California because there are masses of people everywhere you go and it takes forever to get somewhere on the roads but it's nothing like Hong Kong. It's making me feel pessimistic for the planet. They keep saying that there needs to be an increase in population and the birth rate, especially in western Europe because there won't be enough young people to pay into the system to support an aging population that keeps getting older. But that increased population of young people will eventually get old, requiring even more young people to support them. And on and on it will go. I don't know what the solution is. I just know that the one good thing about getting old (I'm 64) is that I won't be around much longer to see the further degradation of the planet.

[hibbing]

5. Ugh

I too would not be able to handle that. The noise, the pollution, imagine how much trash that place produces. I can't even imagine a place with quiet there.

Peace

[Aerows]

6. I'm 41. I thank every deity you can mention

that I don't live like that here in the US, and probably never will in my lifetime. Living in a box is nothing I would ever want to do.

[flying rabbit]

8. Makes me thankful for what I have. nt

[pipi_k]

9. And to think...

that I felt crowded a few years back when my (now) closest neighbors built their house a thousand feet away down the hill from me.

[bunnies]

10. If I believed in hell... thats what it would look like.

I couldn't exist in that space. Ever.

[Coventina]

11. Hong Kong has the worst air pollution of any place I have seen personally.

I only had a layover there, so, granted, I was only there a few hours, but, ugh!!!

It was so bad, I could barely make out anything outside the airport windows.

And that's the thing I can't figure out about rich climate-change deniers.

Rich or poor, you all have to breathe the same air. If it's poison, it's poison, and it's going to kill you just as quickly as your domestic staff.

[DebJ]

12. I'm hyperventillating from claustrophobia just looking at the pictures. MATRIX! n/t

[OriginalGeek]

13. I must be really weird

I kinda think it would be cool to live in a big city like that.

For a while anyway.

And as long as I had money and the ability to get out to the country on occasion.


and if the internet was super-high speed.

edit to add interesting post from the comment section:

Building like this has allowed Hong Kong to keep 3/4th's of is total area undeveloped and natural. It also allows for viable public transportation, and it is actually easier to get around the city on the MTR than in a car. Sure you may live in a giant vertical neighborhood, but everything you need is within walking distance and you're never more than a few minutes away from natural green space. A lot of those apartments are nicer on the inside than a typical American house, and require considerably less maintenance.

of course, that doesn't address pollution but still - walking distance from everywhere and green area nearby. And the take-out must be tremendous!