Got into a heated discussion with a coworker over this. My stance is it was probably for the best it was demolished. The entire thing was a massive fire and disease hazard. Massive amounts of crime and unlicensed businesses too. Despite its reputation for a kind of tight knit anarchist type community, most of the stuff I've read seems to suggest triads and the HK police were largely running the place.
I hate forceful eviction as much as the next person here. What else could have been done? There was some compensation given to the residents, but I know some residents complained it wasn't enough.
My coworker's stance is the place should have remained as it was, without any sort of intervention whatsoever, despite being so hazardous.
How do y'all feel?
The photographs are nuts.
Ooh, I want to see what it looks like.
All of the buildings were 14 stories high because it was under the approach of a nearby airport.
Holy JavaScript. That atlas obscura page has like 15 JavaScript trackers running on it.
Do I have to run NoScript to keep myself safe from those or does uBlock Origin (which I use) offer some protection?
Recommend running noscript and just toggling them until the site has necessary functionality.
U block just blocks trackers and html elements
It's useful for "dynamic" news sites beause it just miles anything that moves
That graphic is pure ideology and propaganda FYI.
visualcapitalist lol :stalin-joking:
Yeah but it's fun to look at.
True
Little known fact but one of the reasons for the collapse of the Qing dynasty was the absurd amount of money spent on building office facilities for citrus fruit.
Those images give me so much anxiety