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...concrete part has some Hong Kong residents worried. The city has long had a mania for massive building and land-reclamation projects, but that ardor is cooling. Landfill has left Hong Kong with an ever-narrowing harbor, and the reclaimed land has frequently been used for roads and bus terminals rather than for parks or restaurants. "Hong Kong has a magnificent harbor," says Christine Loh, head of Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong think tank. "But actually it's pretty awful at the waterfront...
...picture of the metro area." Hong Kong could yet have a waterfront to rival those of Sydney or San Francisco. But if it gets things wrong, the city could be stuck with more lifeless stretches of concrete. "This is our last chance to fix this," says Paul Zimmerman, a harbor activist. "Tamar is going ahead and will be given over to government offices. Now what do we do with the rest...
...much of its history, Hong Kong has used the harbor as an inexhaustible supply of land. Reclamation has enabled Hong Kong to grow both physically and economically. But the fill-and-build model has led to a backlash, and in 2004 lawyer and activist Winston Chu won a court fight to block a 26-hectare reclamation project in Wanchai, east of Central. "There is a very strong community call to stop all this continuing infilling of the harbor, which I think is totally valid," says Fung. "But still I think we need to finish it up and build the best...
...coalition of prominent corporate leaders who had issued a detailed report outlining problems with current government plans for the Central waterfront, and "gave them a bit of a dressing down," according to a person familiar with the meeting. Since then the group has been more muted on the harbor, and two political parties that had raised questions about the plan eventually agreed to go along...
...After 15 years as chairman, Tata is thinking of retiring. Asked how he would spend his days, he says he gave up golf long ago and has almost no free time outside the business. On rare evenings off, he says he takes a half-hour boat ride across Bombay harbor to a small, scruffy beach house. "It seldom had power, so I had to put in a small generator," he says. "It's quiet and away from everywhere. There is a town and there are neighbors, but I go quietly on my own. I walk the beach and I read...