Kowloon walled city

Before its demolition, the towering Hong Kong neighbourhood was home to gangs, entrepreneurs, families and addicts. A new exhibition explores it using vintage photos and AI creations

In light of the release of a second, revised edition of City of Darkness -- the authoritative text on Kowloon Walled ...

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Up until the 1994, there existed, just north of Kowloon Bay, a bizarre city in Hong Kong named Kowloon Walled City. Over time the veritable lawless (and unclaimed by any government) Kowloon Walled City became a curious stack of cheaply constructed boxes through which ran a maze of dark alleys and exposed pipe and wiring and housed drug dealers and addicts, pimps and prostitutes, organized gangs, gambling dens, criminal headquarters, and private citizens all living together in a tangled mess…

33,000 people lived and worked in Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. It was the area of an average city block, making it 119 times as dense as New York.

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an interior view of Kowloon walled city in Hong Kong, flat lay, flat perspective, front perspective, very detailed, photoreal, 8k,

The City's dozens of alleyways were often only 1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ft) wide, and had poor lighting and drainage.[18] An informal network of staircases and passageways also formed on upper levels, which was so extensive that one could travel north to south through the entire City without ever touching solid ground.[4] cyborganthropology.com/Kowloon_Walled_City

Greg Girard on Instagram: "Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, 1987. Over 300 interconnected high-rise buildings packed into a HK city block, built without permits or contributions from architects. While it stood it was the most densely populated place on earth. Demolished in 1992. www.greggirardpictures.com #cityofdarkness #cityofdarknessrevisited #kowloonwalledcity #kowloon #kowlooncity #urbandensity #hkarchitecture #hk #hkhistory #urbanfabric #cityscape #filmphotography #greggirard"