The different stages of the development of Hong Kong are still visual in the city landscape. In all areas and neighbourhoods you will find houses and buildings from other decades dotted in between the more fashionable and modern high rises.
The massive “new” buildings from the fifties, where the enormous demand on housing started after some devastating fires in the Squatter camps at the hillsides, and the government just had to take action and build housing for the people coming in to Hong Kong from Mainland China.
These typical Hong Kong blocks is still to be found around the town, and seen from the out side, they look inviting and just as a good location for some Action Kung Fu movie, with a fabulous chase over the rooftop.
At night, the visible contrast in the decades of architecture is more obvious because of the light technology of the modern times, and in not many years, the areas with the houses as here in the front will be gone, and the streamlined look of glass, steel and concrete will be dominating. Gone will be all the small narrow streets and alleyways, which –I think- is still one of the biggest charms of walking through the streets of Hong Kong.
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