One more tour in Chinatown, this time at night.

Slowly, one after the other, cars arrive and park through Wagenstraat. The people leaving the vehicles either go home or head to one of the many restaurants. Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indonesian, Turkish... There's space for every taste. It pose no surprise that we can't see Chinese in the streets... a small glimpse to the door bells its all that is needed to understand that almost no Chinese live on this quarter. Chinatown is a place for work, a place for commerce during the day and restaurants during the evening, but handed over to the Dutch during the night.

Its now dark, cold and rainy, the North of Chinatown - Grote Marktstraat - is completely empty, all the commerce is closed and no body seems to live there...

Fear in Den Haag

During the travel experiences in chinatown in Den haag , we wanted to take a pedestrian policeman as a subject. But after a while we wanted to answear: why there is no police presence in this area: it was because the area is full of camera!!!.
It is interesting to see all this hide power of control and to understand why? the first answear was to map all this camera and we started to see all the "view"control between the 2 stations and the old city center..

somes books references and movie on this subject :

The book is a historical, economic, and cultural dissection of Los Angeles, its residents and their lifestyles and their interactions with real estate developers. Davis contrasts the campaigners for 'slow growth' with the needs of minorities living on the margins and the never ending growth of Los Angeles with environmental considerations.

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