SCENEWAY GARDENS, Ghettos AND LE CORBUSIER
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Left : Chungking Mansions cinégraphs
Over : Video about Nam Shan Estate |
Similar causes generate similar solutions ?
"The government made Nam Shan estate a prison for the poor" the comment will not be political but it reveals that ghettoizing has happened in Hong Kong too, a city where the wealth gap is extremely marked
"It appears the poorer you are, the unhappier you become. Households with monthly income of HK$10,000 to HK$20,000 have the highest misery index of 2.93 out of 4, with 4 being the most miserable. Those on HK$15,000 to HK$19,999 scored 2.90. The happiest, at 2.79, are households with a monthly income of HK$50,000 or more. So, while it's true that money can't buy happiness, the lack of it does bring misery.
But this tells only part of the story. It isn't that we are poor as a whole. A new survey by Citibank finds that one in nine of the city's adults - or at 601,000 people - are Hong Kong-dollar millionaires, a 14 per cent jump from the previous year. The survey only counts liquid assets such as cash, stocks and bonds, and excludes property. One in three makes his or her money from property, and one in four from investments such as the stock and bond markets." Article from the South-China Morning Post
The wealth gap is not ready to be welded, although the new government led by CY Leung is saying, with much controversy that they are working on it.
"The government made Nam Shan estate a prison for the poor" the comment will not be political but it reveals that ghettoizing has happened in Hong Kong too, a city where the wealth gap is extremely marked
"It appears the poorer you are, the unhappier you become. Households with monthly income of HK$10,000 to HK$20,000 have the highest misery index of 2.93 out of 4, with 4 being the most miserable. Those on HK$15,000 to HK$19,999 scored 2.90. The happiest, at 2.79, are households with a monthly income of HK$50,000 or more. So, while it's true that money can't buy happiness, the lack of it does bring misery.
But this tells only part of the story. It isn't that we are poor as a whole. A new survey by Citibank finds that one in nine of the city's adults - or at 601,000 people - are Hong Kong-dollar millionaires, a 14 per cent jump from the previous year. The survey only counts liquid assets such as cash, stocks and bonds, and excludes property. One in three makes his or her money from property, and one in four from investments such as the stock and bond markets." Article from the South-China Morning Post
The wealth gap is not ready to be welded, although the new government led by CY Leung is saying, with much controversy that they are working on it.
Although Hong Kong's Hyperghetto of the Kowloon walled city was destroyed in 1992, the Chunking mansions are second inline to being Hong Kong's Hyperghetto (See Chungking's ghetto)
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Kowloon walled city, above
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Hong kong growth
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In 50 years the population of Hong Kong has risen from just over 3 million to 7 million, a bit under 200% population growth in 50 years, clearly, the need for efficient housing was needed. The sporadic developments of buildings like Chungking estates and rooftop slums and others were one result of the need of desperate housing, Housing estates, like Nam Shan at the beginning were the solution, intensifying as the years went on, the most recent estates like Ocean Shores in TKO and Caribbean coast in Tung Chung are not comparable, by size to Nam Shan, nor are they in original design |
Corbusier, found town centers too dense, and wanted dense constructions but spaced, Like the Cité radieuse the Sceneway gardens has all the functions necessary to living inside one building complex