The dull city creates social distance

Tin Shui Wai - public housing estate. Image: the authors.

The housing estates in Hong Kong once laid the foundation for a relative open society that offered plenty of opportunity for social mobility. More than fifty years later, these public estates are more of an obstacle to the emancipation of population groups, and the public and private housing estates of Hong Kong form a city made up of islands with little interaction or exchange between them. A radically different approach to the housing question is required if the city is once again to become a habitable place for everybody and a forum for sharing ideas.

The dull city creates social distance by Inge Goudsmit en Adrienne Simons is the second article in a series of refelctions on the subject of the open society, as published by ArchiNed.

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