District Characteristics
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Earliest urban developments in Hong Kong.
Central
centre of commerce,
District is the traditional
finance and administration of Hong Kong.
through successive stages of reclamation.
office
Area expanded
Up to 250,000
workers move in and out of the district on each
working day.
Mid-Levels and particularly
the Peak are high-class
residential areas for the well-to-do families.
Western
an old
District (Sai Ying Pun, Kennedy Town) is primarily
working class residential area. Early developments resulted in aged and dilapidated building blocks, narrow
and congested roads and shortage in open space/community facilities. Original peripheral location also featured a concentration of offensive trades and industries, including
the incinerator,
abattoir, wholesale markets, cement plant
and lard-boiling factories.
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