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Respite from Hong Kong’s combat zone

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John Berthelsen
Oct 13, 2006
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Hong Kong doesn’t have many parks. There is plenty of concrete, of course, but less green space in its urban heart than almost any city of comparable size anywhere. Instead it has “sitting-out areas” big enough for a squadron or so of pensioners to lean on their canes while trucks and buses roar by a few feet away.

But there is a hidden parklet in Wan Ch…

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