American photographer Austin Bell's project 'Shooting Hoops' showcases the city's surprising abundance of outdoor basketball courts, exploring the unique urban design and cultural uses of these spaces.
Perched atop several flights of concrete stairs, Blue Lotus Gallery is nestled beside hipster coffee shops and vintage stores in the narrow, tree-lined lanes of Hong Kong ’s artsy Sheung Wan district. It’s also surrounded by basketball courts: in parks, balanced on rooftops and invisibly sequestered between skyscrapers. All in all, there are 22 courts within a 600-meter radius of the gallery. Its proximity to so many basketball courts is, oddly, not an anomaly in Hong Kong .
But it’s also just the fact that, there’s just not that many other spaces to do things.” Playful planning policies Basketball — a game invented in the US in 1891 as a safe but entertaining non-contact sport for the Young Men’s Christian Association — has been a perennial favorite in Hong Kong for more than a century.
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