Soho, near the central district of Hong Kong Island, is a dynamic urban area full of restaurants, shops and nightlife. The traditional hill-side neighborhood stretches more or less from the lower Queens Road Central until Robinson Road at the top, having the busy Hollywood Road in the mid level. In the early nineties the Central-Mid-Levels [...]
The city of Shenzhen, in the Pearl River Delta, is an impressive example of the dazzling growth rate in Chinese cities. In 30 years, Shenzhen grew from a fishermen’s village to a metropolis of 10 million inhabitants, closely connected with Hong Kong and the rest of the PRD. Note that not only green land was [...]
The central part of the city of Hong Kong lies on both sides of Victoria Harbour, on Hong Kong Island in the south, and the peninsula of Kowloon in the north. Kowloon still has traditional neighborhoods with lots of street markets and high-density urban blocks. The area of Mong Kok, in the middle of Kowloon, [...]
Hip hop artist Dregs One discusses the gentrification process in his neighborhood in San Francisco:
Helsinki has preserved many of its former industrial structures along the city´s waterfront. A nice concentration of these historic buildings can be found at the peninsula Katajanokka. Despite the inhospitable climate, the author went into town and photographed some examples. Check out the building locations at Google Maps Gräsviksgatan building Katajanokka school building Kino K13 [...]
