The Diplomat: Kowloon Walled City: Anarchy and Inspiration in the City of Darkness
Once looming like a post-apocalyptic fortress from a dystopian future, a self-sustaining city – an infinite urban space – was demolished in Kowloon 20 years ago this month. Kowloon Walled City, or ...
Between the 1950s and mid-'90s, tens of thousands of immigrants constructed a towering community 12 stories high across a 6.4-acre lot in Hong Kong. It was called the Kowloon Walled City. With a ...
Wall Street Journal: New 'City of Darkness' Sheds Light on Kowloon Walled City
This week, The Wall Street Journal released the short documentary "City of Imagination: Kowloon Walled City, 20 Years Later." But we're not the only ones revisiting Kowloon Walled City 20 years after ...
Untapped Cities: The Lost Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong as Represented in Video Games
Architects and designers once hailed Kowloon Walled City as the closest thing to a self-regulating, self-sustaining modern city that had ever been built. If the high-rise was supposed to be the ...
The Lost Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong as Represented in Video Games
Twenty years ago, one of the world’s most unusual and unexpected pieces of architecture was razed to the ground: Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City, the most densely populated area on earth. Squalid, ...
ArchDaily: Kickstart the Latest Edition of 'City of Darkness': The Authoritative Text on Kowloon Walled City
20 years ago, Greg Girard and Ian Lambot published "City of Darkness", a book which documented life inside the notorious Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong during its peak in the late 1980s. When the ...