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Guess which city has the no. 1 place in this list:

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Art inspired by Walled City of Kowloon:

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Living inside the box

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all images from http://snowcherries-from-france.blog...lled-city.html
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Coilhouse Magazine and Blog: Kowloon Walled City: The Modern Pirate Utopia

http://coilhouse.net/2008/08/kowloon...pirate-utopia/

walking through parts of the walled city:
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New York Times (March 1, 2012)

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“So, the highest-density spot ever measured on earth was Kowloon Walled City,” he said, referring to a regulatory no-man’s-land in the heart of Hong Kong claimed by both China and Britain, but ruled by neither. Roughly the size of five football fields, the district at its peak in the 1980s housed an estimated 35,000 people in a vertical thicket of chamber pots and darkness. It was demolished in 1994.

You guys have to see this,” Mr. Ruchala said.

An iPhone was produced. A Wikipedia entry was summoned. A photo was passed around the table. Gasps. Profanity.

“It was basically a thick waffle of density,” Mr. Ruchala said.

“So this is just renegade?” someone asked.

“Pretty renegade,” Mr. Ruchala answered, “Yeah. But awesomely renegade.”

The night’s calculations revealed that packing Manhattan as tightly as Kowloon Walled City, river to river, would mean jamming in 65 million people. That’s if every surface was built on. If the current streets and parks were left intact? About half that many, or nearly the population of California.

Clearly, nobody wants to live in a claustrophobic warren of vertical slums. But what, ultimately, do New Yorkers want? To freeze the city as is? Grow slowly? Build higher and faster? Stretch Manhattan’s boundaries with landfill?

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Long lost WCK photographs. From http://worldphotocollections.blogspo...ong-china.html, all photos c/o IDEAL
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The air above KWC:
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German documentary on KWC:
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One has to wonder how tall the ramshackle buildings would have gotten were they not limited by the airport.
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Insane density witnessed here in Shanghai. Will soon post photos to this effect.
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May 5, 2012 Daily Mail. Article on Kowloon Walled City, with some great pictures; a sampling below. All photos c/o Ian Lambot and Greg Girard (most of which are in "City of Darkness" book)

Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lled-City.html



















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More great pictures by Greg Girard: http://greggirard.com/work/kowloon-walled-city--13

Does this put you off of pork? Walled city BBQ meat factory:


Walled city rubber plunger factory:


Walled city fishball factory:



Walled city Dentist window:

click weblink for many other great photos of WCK as well as Shanghai, Hanoi, etc.
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great collection of KWC videos/photos: http://www.oobject.com/category/kowl...ed-city-guide/
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How did they demolish it? Was it imploded? Deconstructed? Excavator? Good ol fashioned wrecking ball?
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Good old fashioned wrecking ball.
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i'm glad they've found all of these long-lost photos. thanks for posting.

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This is one of the best threads on here.Such mind boggling density.
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Life in Kowloon Walled City
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surrounding neighborhood (1998), planes over Kowloon
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I want to go there almost as much as visit Coruscant.
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^ ha yeah! hard to believe its almost 20 years gone.
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Thought I'd mention that on Sept 24, this thread celebrated 8 years.
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