Kowloon Walled City was a densely populated, largely ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Described by Steven Poole as an “oasis of political and creative freedom” the walled city was extraordinarily overpopulated and housed gambling, prostitution and drug dealing until its demolition in 1994.
We have already wrote about it in one of the 2007/08 series of articles on SecondLife artifacts (here)
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbsPEVbcsXc
Click on the image to see the unbelievable cross section in higher resolution:
An expedition made just before the turning down
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[…] times ago we wrote about the walled city of Kowloon, a spontaneous, unregulated urban development near Hong Kong. Whereas that one was a relatively […]