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Kowloon Walled City: Hong Kong's City of Darkness

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Added by Rylvan
3 years ago on 6 June 2020 18:39

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Imagine, if you will, a city of eternal night. A place so intensely crowded that sunlight never penetrates its alleyways. Overhead, wires dangle from the ceilings. Neon signs fizz in doorways. All around you, 33,000 people are crammed into self-built apartments barely 10m square, while overhead great airships rumble through sky. Is this a vision from the future? The setting, perhaps, for some dystopian sci-fi novel?

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Source/Further reading:

Concise history of the Walled City: www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1581649/kowloon-walled-citys-fight-exist
(some history and accounts of a happier side): www.archdaily.com/800698/heres-what-western-accounts-of-the-kowloon-walled-city-dont-tell-you
Interesting documentary by the Wall Street Journal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj_8ucS3lMY
WSJ Interactive: projects.wsj.com/kwc/#chapter=people
BBC footage from inside the Walled City at the time (1980) (good footage, but reportage focused on the negatives): www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchVQMuxRVA
Average US bedroom size: www.doorwaysmagazine.com/average-bedroom-size/#targetText=We%20determined%20that%20the%20average,14%20feet%20by%2016%20feet.