Reclamation Street (新填地街) is a street stretching from Yau Ma Tei to Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. As its name suggests, it was built on the reclaimed western shore of Kowloon Peninsula. The street is lined with old residential buildings, as well as a wide variety of businesses at the street level. The wholesale Fruit Market and abandoned Yaumati Theatre is located at the street's junction with Waterloo Road. A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, typical of a small town A street is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. ... Yau Ma Tei, also Yaumatei, Yau Ma Ti or Yaumati (Chinese: 油麻地; pinyin: ), is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong district, in the south of the Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong. ... A busy street in Mong Kok, Hong Kong Mong Kok (Chinese: 旺角; Cantonese IPA: , Jyutping: Wong6 Gok3; Mandarin Pinyin: ; the English name is a transliteration of its older name 望角 or 芒角) or Mongkok is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District on Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. ... Location within China In modern day Hong Kong, Kowloon (ä¹é¾; Cantonese IPA:; Jyutping: gau2 lung4; Mandarin Pinyin: JiÇ”lóng; lit. ... The Kowloon Peninsula, commonly referred to as Kowloon, is a peninsula, in the south of the mainland part of the Hong Kong territory. ... Fruit Market (果欄), also known as Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market (油麻地果欄), is a wholesale fruit market in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong. ... Waterloo Road is a major road running north–south in Kowloon, Hong Kong. ...
However, a street is characterized by the degree and quality of street life it facilitates, whereas a road serves primarily as a through passage for road vehicles or (less frequently) pedestrians.
Street performers, beggars, patrons of sidewalk cafés, peoplewatchers, and a diversity of other characters are habitual users of a street; the same people would not typically be found on a road.
In this view, pedestriantraffic is incidental to the street's purpose; a street consists of a thoroughfare running through the middle (in essence, a road), and may or may not have sidewalks along the sides.
The last reclamation happened to cater for the construction of the second phase of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Despite rapid changes as a result of reclamation and redevelopment, the presence of sex workers operating in the midst of ordinary residents continues to be a distinct feature of the region.
Island Reclamation for the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre Extension) includes the formation of an island of 70,000 m² by reclamation at the northern side of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to supply land for building an additional room to the Centre.
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