They doubled the average size of new apartments by outlawing the appalling tiny units that the British establishment encouraged and by engaging in actual planning concerning land use, another thing the British colonial era ignored.
Now it’s about 50-90 sqm for new apartments which is the same as other high density cities like Barcelona. New York for example is 50-70 sqm.
They estimate a further gain of 10-20% in floor area per person by 2030.
Thanks China!
Your dumb ass should start questioning your assumptions because they’re wrong.
I recently saw a mini-documentary about the segmented apartments in Hong Kong, and how because now they’re banned, some of them have been made into mini-museums as a kind of walk-through PSA about the horrific conditions people were forced to live in only 20 years ago. As interesting as things like that and the Kowloon Walled City are from a historical point of view, I’m glad that the government turned it into a park and people have better living conditions now.
Having examples for people to see is essential for making sure people remember what they came from and why they shouldn’t want to go back to it. This is something I think communist countries need to get on more efficiently, museums of capitalism and its historical conditions. This is also very important to capitalism, with its museums to feudalism and (at least here in europe) heavy focus in education on feudal lives).
You’re absolutely right. The One Country Two Systems approach isn’t worth the paper it’s written on now that the Brits are flagrantly interfering with HK’s affairs.
The PRC should immediately integrate HK into Guangdong Province, arrest the real estate oligarchs and seize their assets.
Because you don’t just throw people out of their homes without a viable alternative. Viable alternatives take time and resources to build, neither of which are infinite. As @Kaisen@hexbear.net has already explained, this is already being done.
Because when China under Deng took it back from Britain by basically telling them “fuck off or we’ll do it by force” and Thatcher agreed (knowing full well they could not fight to keep it and would have had very little support for that anyway other than the western shitholes which were more concerned about the USSR and other communist countries in europe than China at the time), one of the requirements of the deal that Britain made was to keep the current system with unchanged policies for 50 years. This was signed in the Joint Declaration.
This blueprint would be elaborated on in the Hong Kong Basic Law (the post-handover regional constitution) and the central government’s policies for the territory were to remain unchanged for a period of at least 50 years after 1997.
So if you want to complaint to the correct people responsible the way it is currently, complain to the British.
Also, those ‘typical’ apartments were all built during the British colonial era on the crowded Hong Kong Island. Before Deng Xiaoping met with Margret Thatcher, the British government maintained the delusion that they were going to keep the island forever and only cede Kowloon, New Territories, Lantau Island and other surrounding areas (Which constitutes like 90% of HK’s territory) back to China, hence why there wasn’t any proper development outside of the island until the 2000s.
Not to mention, I’ve lived in Hong Kong for the past few years, and I can tell you those kinds of conditions are far from ‘typical’. The HK SAR government have spent the past two decades building public housing and getting people to relocate from the British era squalors to these newer apartments. The HK government has already demolished a lot of these ‘typical’ apartments. Give it another few decades, and no one in HK will be living in 50 sq ft ‘apartments’.
Newer apartment complexes built in places like Tseung Kwan O, Lohas Park, Lantau Island, and Tuen Mun are planned much better with parks, walkability, and community in mind. They are also much more spacious (relatively speaking). Like, holy fuck, Hong Kong Island is so uneccessarily car brained.
What part of One Country; Two Systems do you not understand? This is caused by Hong Kong being allowed to be 100% exploitative capitalism for the purposes of trade (and the agreement made with Britain) rather than socialism.
Typical Hong Kong apartment
The same hong kong owned by western capitalist for 70 years right?
If it’s a problem caused by Western capitalism, why hasn’t China fixed it in the over 25 years?
Because they agreed to 50-year autonomy. Come on you know this.
How are you a star trek fan and this stupid, do you just clap at the spaceships?
Many such cases
They doubled the average size of new apartments by outlawing the appalling tiny units that the British establishment encouraged and by engaging in actual planning concerning land use, another thing the British colonial era ignored.
Now it’s about 50-90 sqm for new apartments which is the same as other high density cities like Barcelona. New York for example is 50-70 sqm.
They estimate a further gain of 10-20% in floor area per person by 2030.
Thanks China!
Your dumb ass should start questioning your assumptions because they’re wrong.
I recently saw a mini-documentary about the segmented apartments in Hong Kong, and how because now they’re banned, some of them have been made into mini-museums as a kind of walk-through PSA about the horrific conditions people were forced to live in only 20 years ago. As interesting as things like that and the Kowloon Walled City are from a historical point of view, I’m glad that the government turned it into a park and people have better living conditions now.
Having examples for people to see is essential for making sure people remember what they came from and why they shouldn’t want to go back to it. This is something I think communist countries need to get on more efficiently, museums of capitalism and its historical conditions. This is also very important to capitalism, with its museums to feudalism and (at least here in europe) heavy focus in education on feudal lives).
You’re absolutely right. The One Country Two Systems approach isn’t worth the paper it’s written on now that the Brits are flagrantly interfering with HK’s affairs.
The PRC should immediately integrate HK into Guangdong Province, arrest the real estate oligarchs and seize their assets.
Because you don’t just throw people out of their homes without a viable alternative. Viable alternatives take time and resources to build, neither of which are infinite. As @Kaisen@hexbear.net has already explained, this is already being done.
The communism button got misplaced and ended up in a dubiously legal tech market smh my head
Because when China under Deng took it back from Britain by basically telling them “fuck off or we’ll do it by force” and Thatcher agreed (knowing full well they could not fight to keep it and would have had very little support for that anyway other than the western shitholes which were more concerned about the USSR and other communist countries in europe than China at the time), one of the requirements of the deal that Britain made was to keep the current system with unchanged policies for 50 years. This was signed in the Joint Declaration.
So if you want to complaint to the correct people responsible the way it is currently, complain to the British.
Also, those ‘typical’ apartments were all built during the British colonial era on the crowded Hong Kong Island. Before Deng Xiaoping met with Margret Thatcher, the British government maintained the delusion that they were going to keep the island forever and only cede Kowloon, New Territories, Lantau Island and other surrounding areas (Which constitutes like 90% of HK’s territory) back to China, hence why there wasn’t any proper development outside of the island until the 2000s.
Not to mention, I’ve lived in Hong Kong for the past few years, and I can tell you those kinds of conditions are far from ‘typical’. The HK SAR government have spent the past two decades building public housing and getting people to relocate from the British era squalors to these newer apartments. The HK government has already demolished a lot of these ‘typical’ apartments. Give it another few decades, and no one in HK will be living in 50 sq ft ‘apartments’.
Newer apartment complexes built in places like Tseung Kwan O, Lohas Park, Lantau Island, and Tuen Mun are planned much better with parks, walkability, and community in mind. They are also much more spacious (relatively speaking). Like, holy fuck, Hong Kong Island is so uneccessarily car brained.
autonomous capitalist Hong Kong
is this mainland Communist China?
What part of One Country; Two Systems do you not understand? This is caused by Hong Kong being allowed to be 100% exploitative capitalism for the purposes of trade (and the agreement made with Britain) rather than socialism.