I agree with Abbas. The image of our city is crafted by money instead of the city itself, and it presents an absents of characters because they are designed for a “brand” or an icon instead of showing the real side of the city. It makes the city invisible to the people. At the same time, I think that it is also hard to argue whether it represents Hong Kong, all those Generic City images may be intentional, globalization and internet leading us from difference to similarity. For me, the image of Hong Kong crafted by the government shows the extreme form of capitalism, just by searching Hong Kong at google.com and clicked at the website of Hong Kong Tourism Board, it is not hard to see pictures of the prosperity side of Hong Kong. On the other side, with internet and freedom of speech, are we still limiting ourselves to understand a city though the government or the “beautiful” images?
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