Hong Kong
CNN
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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 (1,968-foot) radius of the gallery.
Its proximity to so many basketball courts is, oddly, not an anomaly in Hong Kong.
American photographer Austin Bell estimates that the city has more outdoor courts than even New York or Los Angeles, after scouring satellite…
