Pacific Rim 161: Megacities in Asia
Hong Kong & The Pearl River Delta
Inside Hong Kong's Cage Homes (9:53)
Hong Kong is the most expensive housing market in the world. It has been ranked as the least affordable housing market on Earth for eight years in a row, and the price per square foot seems to be only going up. The inflated prices are forcing Hongkongers to squeeze into unconventionally small spaces that can affect their quality of life.
Hong Kong: Mega Cities Mega Heat (6:17)
The science is clear. Climate change is already happening and is increasing at an alarming pace. Urbanization is exacerbating global warming and cities like Hong Kong are heating up, fast. And the most vulnerable, such as elderly people, are paying the higher price of hotter weather.
More Hong Kong / Pearl River Delta Resources
- The great leap upward: China's Pearl River Delta, then and now
"The Pearl River Delta has witnessed the most rapid urban expansion in human history – a predominantly agricultural region transformed into the world’s largest continuous city. By revisiting the sites of rare archive images of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Macau from the 1940s through 1990s, our photographers have documented this staggering change"
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