香港超高密集居住環(huán)境：香港公民蝸居斗室（組圖）

作者：滬江英語來源：滬江英語 2013-04-15 21:49

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scale

These mind-boggling images capture the scale of soaring apartment blocks in one of the world's most densely populated areas: Hong Kong.

香港是世界上人口最稠密的地區(qū)之一，這些令人難以置信的照片拍的就是香港街道上鱗次櫛比的高層公寓樓。

overlook

As home to a population of more than seven million crammed into an area measuring just 424 square miles, space in Hong Kong is at a premium.It means that, when it comes to providing accommodation for Hong Kong's huge population, the only way to go is up.

在香港，700余萬人口擠在僅424平方英里的土地上，空間對香港來說非常珍貴。這也就意味著，為了滿足香港龐大的人口住宅需求，唯一的方法就是垂直向上蓋高樓。

window

The result is the soaring high-rise buildings captured to incredible effect by German photographer Michael Wolf in his project Architecture of Density. The images reveal the densely packed apartments crammed into towering skyscrapers, with laundry spilling from barred windows and hanging over cramped balconies.

德國攝影師邁克爾·沃爾福在他的作品《建筑密度》中直現(xiàn)這些沖破天際的高層建筑，震撼人心。照片上顯露著昂然聳立的摩天大樓里密密麻麻地布滿了小公寓，衣服晾在窗欄或是狹窄的陽臺上。

balcony

Earlier this year the Hong Kong-based Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) highlighted the plight of the city's most under-privileged people, increasing numbers of whom are being forced to live in almost inconceivably small spaces.

今年初，香港社區(qū)組織協(xié)會強調(diào)了生活在這座城市底層的人們的困境問題，這些被迫居住在幾乎難以想象的斗室的群體數(shù)量正在增加。

laundry

In districts including Sham Shui Po, Yau Tsim Mong, and Kowloon City, families, elderly people and the unemployed are crammed into living quarters that are barely bigger than a toilet cubicle in some cases.

在像深水埗、油尖旺、九龍這些地方，家庭、老人和失業(yè)者擠在斗室里，有的居住空間只比衛(wèi)生間大一點。

night life

The combination of Hong Kong's huge population and sky-high rents - around HKD$90 (￡8) per square foot a month - has led to a housing shortage that is affecting hundreds of thousands of the city's poorest people, SoCo said.

香港社區(qū)組織協(xié)會補充說到，香港龐大的人口再加上天價租金——每月一平方英尺的租金約為90港幣（8英鎊），造成房屋短缺，影響數(shù)以萬計的城市貧民們的生活。