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    City of Anarchy

    Article is from March but just stumbled across it today:

    Kowloon Walled City: Life in the City of Darkness


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    Has anyone checked out the book, City of Darkness? I'm interested but it's bloody expensive....


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    Would have loved to have seen it!


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    From the SCMP article/image caption:

    The city was a phenomenon with 33,000 families and businesses living in more than 300 interconnected high-rise buildings, all constructed without contributions from a single architect.
    Nothing changed in HK as far as I can tell
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    impressive slum


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    Went for a walk in Hubei Village in Shenzhen a couple of weeks ago . . . it is old, run down and slated for demolition to make way for a mall (because as we all know, China needs more malls). It also has dark ally ways where the sun never touches the ground because of how close the buildings are to each other. This is the closest thing I've seen to what the Kowloon Walled City must have looked like. A couple of pics I snapped . . .