Kowloon Walled City was once the most densely populated place on Earth, with 35,000 residents crammed into just 26,000 square meters, before it was demolished. advertisement.

Known as “the city of darkness,” Kowloon Walled City was a crowded, tangled metropolis of 60,000 people with little political or legal oversight.

For five years starting in 1987, Canadian photojournalist Greg Girard and British architectural photographer Ian Lambot teamed up to photograph Kowloon Walled City, the famed enclave in Hong Kong ...

The Kowloon Walled City was infamously one of the most densely populated parts of Hong Kong, with people living on top of each other in sanitary conditions below the standard of the rest of Hong Kong.

Amid the neon-lit haze of 1960s Hong Kong, the notorious Kowloon Walled City loomed in the distance. It was once dubbed the most densely populated place on Earth, housing tens of thousands of ...