Welcome to the most dazzling skyline in the world. We defy you not to be awed as you stand for the first time at the harbour’s edge in Tsim Sha Tsui and see Hong Kong Island’s majestic panorama of skyscrapers march up those steep, jungle-clad hills. This spectacle has been created because in Hong Kong buildings are knocked down and replaced with taller, shinier versions almost while your back is turned. The scarcity of land, the strains of a growing population and the rapacity of developers – as well as the opportunism of the common speculator – drive this relentless cycle of destruction and c
Welcome to the most dazzling skyline in the world. We defy you not to be awed as you stand for the first time at the harbour’s edge in Tsim Sha Tsui and see Hong Kong Island’s majestic panorama of skyscrapers march up those steep, jungle-clad hills. This spectacle has been created because in Hong Kong buildings are knocked down and replaced with taller, shinier versions almost while your back is turned. The scarcity of land, the strains of a growing population and the rapacity of developers – as well as the opportunism of the common speculator – drive this relentless cycle of destruction and construction.
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