Under Threat in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s Gage Street is the starting point of a busy market area, and has little in common with the skyscrapers of nearby Central District. Shops teem with fresh produce. Some seem to have almost been here forever.A lot of this is under threat from redevelopment.
Read Patrick Smith in the International Herald Tribune: At risk in Hong Kong: A slice of hawkers' magic.
Also look at my slide show on the BBC website.
The full story in the Correspondent Magazine of the Foreign Correspondents' Club here in Hong Kong.

© Kees Metselaar 2007

Urban Destruction

Mr. Kwan Moon-chui in his traditional grocery and preserved-food store on Wellington Street in Central Hong Kong.
His shop and the very popular outside market in neighbouring Graham Street are set for so-called urban renewal.
Old houses and shops will disappear and new high-rises will be built in the area.

© Kees Metselaar 2007