History of Extreme City Density thread

[jd3189]

I was looking at the Kowloon Walled City Thread when I came across this.

Originally Posted by Jesus in a Geo

Hell, I'm not sure if we could start an entirely new thread devoted to super-dense, tall, old or otherwise anomalous developments across the globe...

Places like....


Shibam, Yemen



Longyearbyen, Svalbard, The world's northernmost permanent town (Nearest city with over 1,000 people: Nordkapp, Norway, over 1000 miles away).

I don't know if such a thread exists, but we might as well have one regardless. Since the most extremes are found in the past, most pictures can be historic.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insight-Kowloon-Walled-City.html




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yard_of_a_tenement_at_Park_Ave._LOC_det.4a28182.jpg