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^Great pix from one of my all-time favourite books ("City of Darkness"). I own a copy.
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The end of the KWC:

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Bronze Model of KWC in KWC park:

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WKC art:

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Another KWC resource page. There are others like me who have an endless fascination with the place. http://jeffbaij.com/work/2008/definitivekowloon/
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Tin Fu Court, a public housing estate of the Home Ownership Scheme in Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong

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I was looking for art to decorate my place and came across this one.

http://www.eyesonwalls.com/products/kowloonwalledcity

I might buy it.
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Paris has their own version of this, but of course it looks much more beautiful (at least from a bird's eye view) and it doesn't have nearly the same amount of density.


http://thefunambulist.net/2012/02/08...-paris-part-1/
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The Wall Street Journal just released a documentary on the legacy of the KWC 20 years after its demolition:

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2...y-20-years-on/
As part of this project the WSJ also created an interactive multimedia page to explore KWC and its inhabitants: http://projects.wsj.com/kwc/
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As part of this project the WSJ also created an interactive multimedia page to explore KWC and its inhabitants: http://projects.wsj.com/kwc/
Gold. thanks for the link. Required viewing for all WCK afficionados.
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Not sure if anyone has posted this photographer's website before, but it has some cool vintage photos of the Walled City:

http://greggirard.com/work/kowloon-walled-city--13

There are also some nice vintage photos of HK generally too... definitely worth a look.
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A new kowloon?

Hey there, been reading your thread. Awesome info. I read somewhere a discussion about if it was possible for a new kowloon to emerge, and i think that there´s a place that might be a candidate.
There´s a "villa miseria" (shanty town i think its called in english?) in the city of Buenos Aires called Villa 31. What´s particular about this slum, because there are many more in Buenos Aires, it that it is located between train tracks and other buildings that impede the horizontal growth of the place. At the same time the villa is positioned in a very centric place of the city, next to the most expensive neighborhood, so it is a very sought after location by poor inmigrants or simply poor argentinians. And also being next to the bus terminal and a train terminal are other factors to consider. The conclusion is that the place is growing vertically, like no other slum in Buenos Aires. I take the train that passes next to the place, every day, and im always counting how many floors the buildings are growing. They are already reaching 6 stories high. And its all unplanned construction. So i think its a very interesting place to keep in mind, in a way is like watching the growth of kowloon.
Oh, another interesting fact, theres a highway that goes right through the middle of the place, which i use very often, and its really impressive to see the buildings now reaching to the side of the highway.
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^welcome to the forum. Post pictures of the shantytown if you have them. I saw some shantytowns when I visited Lima and Bogota last year.
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Paris has their own version of this, but of course it looks much more beautiful (at least from a bird's eye view) and it doesn't have nearly the same amount of density.
Still, Paris is the most dense city in Europe, or so I've read.
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^I read that Naples was the most dense large city in Europe. The Spanish Quarter is ultra-dense. I was there this summer. Wow. More dense than anything I have experienced, even in China, Japan, or Korea.

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^The third picture quite looks like the KWC rooftops. And while KWC had the triads...

On an unrelated note. I've just finished reading a book on Hong Kong, published in 1977 by Time Life, as part of their "The Great Cities" series.
KWC is only mentioned twice + one small picture (of an unlicensed dentist's sign). The book is lavishly illustrated and show how the city appeared back then. Recommended reading!
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^wow, I have that very Time-Life book title! It was, in fact, my first introduction to The Walled City of Kowloon.
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