CUBICLE APARTMENTS / HK via Transit City
When the Society for Community Organization , a charity that helps badly housed Hong Kong , trying to educate the local government on the people who live in the real vertical slums are the “ cubicle apartments “ , it gives this kind of images. It is now estimated at more than 100,000 the number of people who occupy these micro-slumswho do not say their name. More on this topic here . Upstream on the density of HK , see here .
(via thecouscousqueen)
Abu Jaffar Al Mansur Monument - Iraqi Sculptor KHALID AL RAHAL
Abu Ja’ffar Al Mansur statue was one of the many architectures and sculptures of Iraq that were destroyed after the 2003 invasion. The statue was bombed in 2005 by an unknown group, and it was later renovated and reconstructed in 2008.
Abu Jaffar Al Mansur (714-775) was the Abbasid Caliph who established the city of Baghdad.
Image on the left shows it during the 90s before it was bombed, and the one on the right shows it after its renovation.
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