A Closer Look at a
Changing Skyline
The Hong Kong skyline changes with such rapidity that its most frequent visitors can be taken by surprise. Sentiment gives way to excitement as familiar landmarks are replaced
by the towering new edifices of a metropolis on the move. Even the sea is not inviolate. A hundred years of reclamation have filled in its bays and inlets with a form of man-made geography that would be hand to match anywhere in the world.
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This restless urge for devel- opment has left its greatest impact on the waterfronts and foothills of Victoria City and Kowloon, where reclamation pro- grammes are even now founding fresh acres to support the structures of tomorrow. However the scenery may alter, the view in every direction somehow retains the inimitable flavour of Hong Kong.
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Few traces remain of the pioneer settlement which pen- cilled in the original outlines for this rich and crowded canvas. Museums, books and art collec- tions furnish the only clues to how it all began.
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