The Longest Escalator System In The World
19 June 2007 - 2:00pm
Hong Kong's unique system of escalators, moving walkways, and pedestrian bridges has transformed the neighborhoods it connects.
"Somehow we've come to equate pedestrian escalators with airless utopian modernist city where conveyor belts ferret lone figures through an eventless urban landscape. But in Hong Kong, these escalators seem to have fostered quite a robust public space."
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