Kowloon Walled City: Hong Kong's City of Darkness

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Imagine, if you will, a city of eternal night. A place so intensely crowded that sunlight never penetrates its alleyways. Overhead, wires dangle from the ceilings. Neon signs fizz in doorways. All around you, 33,000 people are crammed into self-built apartments barely 10m square, while overhead great airships rumble through sky. Is this a vision from the future? The setting, perhaps, for some dystopian sci-fi novel?

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Author - Morris M.
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Source/Further reading:

Concise history of the Walled City: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-m...
(some history and accounts of a happier side): https://www.archdaily.com/800698/here...
Interesting documentary by the Wall Street Journal:    • City of Imagination: Kowloon Walled City 2...  
WSJ Interactive: https://projects.wsj.com/kwc/#chapter...
BBC footage from inside the Walled City at the time (1980) (good footage, but reportage focused on the negatives):    • BBC Kowloon Walled City Documentary 1980 (...  
Average US bedroom size: https://www.doorwaysmagazine.com/aver....