PhotoHONG KONG — As Dennis Wu sat with hundreds of people in the middle of a busy Hong Kong street recently, the scene felt to him like the pro-democracy protests of 2014 all over again. After the initial chaos of the demonstrations subsided, a nearly mile-long stretch of a busy thoroughfare turned into a public space fertile with ideas and aspirations. Many people said that they found the experience refreshing and that they yearned for more public space like this. He said that was an increasingly common experience in many great cities but lacking in Hong Kong. In 2014, the Hong Kong government undertook a study of possible solutions, proposing this March to charge drivers for access.

Source: New York Times October 09, 2016 17:26 UTC