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For several decades in the second half of the 20th century, the Kowloon Walled City — an enclave within the sprawling city of Hong Kong — was far and away the most densely populated place in the world ...
Known as “the city of darkness,” Kowloon Walled City was a crowded, tangled metropolis of 60,000 people with little political or legal oversight.
Kowloon Walled City was a chaotic and lawless enclave in the heart of in then British-controlled Hong Kong where some 35,000 lived cramped together within 26,000 square metres (6.4 acres).
It's been over 30 years since the world's most densely populated city was demolished. Kowloon Walled City was a large and lawless enclave of 35,000 residents squeezed into a territory of 26,000 ...
Kowloon City was once a densely populated area in Hong Kong, with about 50,000 people living in an area roughly half the size of the Tokyo Dome. There is footage that records life and production ...
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 ...
Kowloon Walled City housed an uncountable number of stories about people who lived, breathed, and dreamed within that mesh of concrete, steel, pleasure, and pain haphazardly built upon each other.
Girard first visited Kowloon Walled City in 1986 while on a shoot at the nearby airport. At that time, around 350 buildings, up to 14 stories high, were packed precariously into a space of 0.01 ...
The Kowloon Walled City was located in the northeast of the Kowloon Peninsula, on the main landmass of Hong Kong. Its origins trace back to the 1660s, when the locale became home to a minor military ...