I would die in this sea of people. I would die and take as many of them with me as I could. Population density at this level is insanity. The resources needed, the pollution created...it will keep me up nights just thinking about it. If that was my reality I would eat my gun, if I could get a gun. Or I could jump. But then I could take forever to land and change my mind half way down. It's like that planet on Star Trek where no one has any privacy or Megacity One from Judge Dredd.
With seven million people, Hong Kong is the 4th most densely populated places in the world. However, plain numbers never tell the full story. In his ‘Architecture of Density’ photo series, German photographer Michael Wolf explores the jaw-dropping urban landscapes of Hong Kong. He rids his photographs of any context, removing any sky or horizon line from the frame and flattening the space until it becomes a relentless abstraction of urban expansion, with no escape for the viewer’s eye. Infinite and haunting.
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4 comments:
Fascinating.
Personally I love the density of cities and I really enjoy living in the middle of Manhattan, but it's totally different from this: I live in a five-story brownstone on a reasonably quiet street of low buildings (although big skyscrapers are close by). I love the sea of lit windows at night, but then, I grew up with it.
That WOULD be a cool place to live. You are the envy of a lot of people. Would love to see what you see out your window. I want to visit New York so badly.
I wouldn´t live there either (I´m have few friends and acquaintances, by decision), but I would surely love to visit that place sometime. It´s like an alien world.
This degree of density would make me TOTALLY MENTAL! It makes Tokyo look like a quiet village. And believe me, Tokyo is nothing but skyscrapers and expressways. I was a little creeped out by how many people were ALWAYS around.
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