Chaos in paradise
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ARCH : the Asian magazine of architecture, design and visual communications, no.6, 1990, pp. 120-130
Abstract
Once there was a city called Zenobia. Its inhabitants lived in a maze of twisting alleys, pre-cariously dangling bridges and zig-zagging edifices. Inside its boundaries all was tightly-packed confusion: a seething, humming mass of humanity. The Zenobians loved it. Townplanners - take heart. While your intelligent and thoughtful schemes for Hong Kong occasionally seem to have gone astray, you have - sometimes in spite of your original intentions - helped to create one of the most dynamic urban centres in the world. The paradox of Hong Kong and its "chaos in paradise" are tellingly depicted in this somewhat unorthodox, poetic portrait from the scholarly hand of Chris Law.
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1990
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en