Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Hong Kong villages at mercy of urban developers

A tiny farm plot that will soon be transformed to residential complexes
A farmer's house in Ma Shi Po
A farmer at Ma Shi Po chopping up sugar cane
A windowless house with blessings from visitors
A young crowd enjoying themselves at the Ma Shi Po Concert
A young participant at the Ma Shi Po Concert holding onto a guitar
Simplistic lifestyle inside Ma Shi Po village

After decades of rapid urban development, farming villages like Ma Shi Po are on the verge of extinction in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong doesn?t strike people as a city that promotes a back-to-nature lifestyle and the brutal truth is younger generations here don?t always have the luxury of interacting with nature. Many have ?probably never been to a farmland,? according to Sandy Chan, an amateur environmental advocate.

A lot of arable farmland in Hong Kong has rapidly disappeared to make way for urban development in recent decades, often resulting in grievous friction between villagers and developers.

read more

Sienna Guillory Sienna Miller Soft Cell Sophia Bush

No comments:

Post a Comment