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'Lennon Walls' herald a sticky-note revolution in Hong Kong

  • Written by Jeff Hou, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
Hong Kong's first Lennon Wall appeared in 2014.Wpcpey/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Months of anti-government protests in Hong Kong have physically reshaped the city. As a scholar of urban landscapes, I have been interested in how the citizens and activists made use of the urban environment during the movement, including walls of Post-it sticky notes...

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