TNAG-2923-FCO40-4198-Visits-and-proposed-visits-by-Alastair-Goodlad--Minister-of--1993 — Page 45

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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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