消失嘅地方

English

Hong Kong is one of the world's fastest-changing cities, and many former landmarks have vanished. Recording these vanished places is an important way to understand the city's transformation. Kai Tak Airport (1925–1998): once one of the world's busiest airports, with its runway extending into Victoria Harbour and aircraft descending over Kowloon City rooftops on approach. Closed on 6 July 1998; the site is now the Kai Tak New Development Area. Kowloon Walled City: a Qing-dynasty garrison that became a largely ungoverned enclave after 1899, demolished in 1993. At its peak it was one of the most densely populated places on Earth; the site is now Kowloon Walled City Park. Jumbo Floating Restaurant: the iconic floating restaurant moored in Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter, which left Hong Kong in 2022 and sank in the South China Sea. Lee Tung Street (Wedding Card Street): the Wan Chai cluster of wedding-printing shops, whose original streetscape was lost to urban renewal in the 2000s and redeveloped into residences. Queen's Pier: the public pier next to the Central Star Ferry Pier, relocated in 2006 for reclamation and an iconic controversy of the conservation movement. Old Central Market: the Bauhaus-style market completed in 1939, decommissioned in 2003 and reopened after revitalisation in 2011. Tai Hom Village: the large squatter area at Diamond Hill, cleared in 2001. This site records these vanished places to preserve urban memory. Each entry notes the date and cause of disappearance, sourced from official documents or reliable reporting. The Planning Department, Lands Department, Urban Renewal Authority and Buildings Department all maintain statutory registers of urban development over the years: closed airports, cleared squatter areas, decommissioned piers, converted markets, discontinued schools — each with a corresponding clearance or relocation order. These statutory records of urban change can be structured into yearly series and have not yet been imported item by item here. "Vanished shops, rooftop schools or cottage factories" mentioned in unofficial media or folk recollection are never treated as verified historical change unless they appear in official files of the Planning Department, Buildings Department or Government Records Service. Subjective reminiscences and oral history are not cited for the time being, preserving the principle of admitting only official text or verified archival material. Official hard figures not yet recorded (all carry an explicit year): (1) Planning Department / Lands Department statutory registers of closed airports, cleared squatter areas, decommissioned piers, converted markets and discontinued schools with clearance orders by year; (2) URA yearly project counts, buildings affected, land resumed and households affected by financial year; (3) Buildings Department yearly demolition-orders issued and buildings successfully demolished; (4) Government Records Service city-planning and squatter-control open-file catalogue counts and volume counts by decade. Deliberately left blank: folk lists of "vanished shops, rooftop schools, cottage factories" not present in official archives, subjective readings of urban change and unconfirmed oral history are deliberately not cited.