Stat of the day
I’m getting claustrophobic just looking at this:
“A thorough government survey in 1987 … estimated that 33,000 people resided within the Walled City’s area of 6.5 acres.”
Given a limit of fourteen stories on buildings (imposed due to nearby Kai Tak Airport), that works out to a maximum 120 square feet of land per person—and that’s making the absurd assumption that every square inch was used as liveable space.
By way of illustration, that would be six people living in my one-bedroom apartment.
Saturday, November 7th, 2009