Hong Kong Resident A:
” There are people there who deal drugs and there are gangs who hurt people, but they also pick on those who have problems with them. At night, there are mice and cats in the alleys, and they eat together, and the mice are not afraid of the cats. They stay together, they play together, they eat together
We came to an alley. He said that there were people smuggled into Hong Kong there. There is a Mei Tung Estate near the Kowloon Walled City, and now also
Under redevelopment, it is the place where the residents of Kowloon Walled City collect water. Nearby was the Tung Tau Village Road. The name and the road are still recorded on the map in the present Kowloon Walled City Park. There is a well still in the park, but he could not remember if it was the place where water was collected back then
There was an empty lot in the middle of the Kowloon Walled City that was a senior center for the elderly. They remembered that there were a lot of electric wires and a lot of water droplets (which was very memorable). The timeline and history from the 1920s to the 2000s is also shown in the exhibition pictures. in the 1930s, the British had already talked about demolishing the place, but it did not materialize. Then, the Qing Dynasty fell and no one cared about the place anymore. After that, the government of mainland China didn’t care either, so people started to build their own things there. Now it’s been demolished and it’s back to the Qing style, but as a park.
The interviewer then mentioned that people were using drugs there. There were also attempts to move the place in the 1960s, but until the 1990s the compensation was not enough for people to move. The interviewee said that he didn’t really go into the city very often because he lived in the outer circle, so he just went out to work and then went back and didn’t really want to spend much time there. As for people who use drugs, they sometimes do so on the balcony (when we moved to the exhibition demonstration room, pictures of the roof were displayed there). But people also liked to be on the rooftops because there was no air conditioning back then, and the rooftops (conditions) were better in the winter. in the 80’s even the police didn’t dare to go into the city until later on.
When they were to be demolished, some people did not know that the Government would compensate them, so they actually sold them at a cheaper price to get rid of their titles. Later, each unit was compensated about $380,000 and some people paid a cheaper fee in the 1970s and 1980s and received that compensation. It is interesting to note that the road name of this lane is still from the Qing Dynasty. And then there is Dazheng Street. When asked why people would pay to buy a house there, even though the Taisho Street Newspaper says “Taisho Street”. respondents said it was cheaper to buy an apartment there. Previously, other places were owned by the British government and people had to pay high taxes on their properties. The industries in there were not regulated by the UK. They have no records there, it’s a transaction between Chinese people. It was more trouble to rent a room outside the city, and people couldn’t read or write back then, so they took care of each other. It became a park because the Chinese Government, after allowing the British to demolish the residential buildings, did not want them to build other houses for profit, so it was kept as a park and no one acquired ownership for profit. It was because the Government at that time did not know that Hong Kong would be returned to China after 1997.”
Hong Kong Resident B:
” This is because it is possible that he simply does not have any unused open space to arrange green plants for this kind of recreational place.”
Hong Kong Resident C:
” To it has always been a very distinctive or historical neighborhood, or or a very important part of the history of Hong Kong.”
Hong Kong Resident D:
” I’m like like this crowded kind of environment and then like it’s got a little bit of orderliness, that is, not so, not so crowded, and then life is in order, yeah, then definitely, people can definitely be very restless and irritable and then also.
No, there is no better mood to live and learn. In this way, the environment can change people, right, and the environment can affect people. Well, it affects the way people live, the way they live and learn.
What do I think it’s going to become in the future? It’s, um, not so many tall, tall buildings, crowded arrangements, and cluttered billboards, and then people living in order. And then there are public recreational areas, and senior centers, like those.
Why do I think it’s dense?
Or because of the people living more, and then he before that those advertising high sign is too dense, messy get in that room that building, for those who live in the sun for sure, and for sure, that is in that kind of production environment is certainly not good. Then, I think it’s good to have plants and not too many billboards, so that, although the building still hasn’t changed that kind of dense kind of status quo, but at least you can see the outside of the houses are not so much cluttered with things, I think it’s a little bit better than before, there’s not so much cluttered things.”
the present in the future is the past 