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from Compressed Space
by SCI-Arc
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Hong Kong has an extremely high urban density. The huge volume of population and the extremely limited available land make the space between buildings compressed as much as possible. Behind these compressed spaces, human living behavior is also affected.
Homeless people have set up tents on the street, on corners, and in front of failing stores. Today, the problem of homelessness has become a pressing social issue in Los Angeles and across the United States.The growing homeless population and the forced encroachment on public space reflect the gap between the rich and the poor and the social system.
Also interesting to me was a set of photos taken in Tokyo, by Michael Wolf: when the trains were heavily overloaded, the way people were squeezed in the closed subway cars was one of the manifestations of space taming human beings.
1-2. Los Angeles Downtown Street View 3-6 "Tokyo Compression" by Michael Wolf
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Precedents
"Man is the Measure of All Things." -Protagoras of Abdera
Today human life continues through one database after another. Human thoughts, actions, history, etc. are compressed into a single byte.
