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April 24th
19:17
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gh0sttowns:

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong.A view from outside the city in 1991.

gh0sttowns:

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong.
A view from outside the city in 1991.

February 22nd
15:01
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invertedyaxis:

The photo is from City of Darkness - Life Inside Kowloon Walled City. If you like Tekkonkinkreet, I’d also recommend that book. Sorry for trying to break banks.

January 18th
22:01
Illustration of the Kowloon walled city.
Click to see the large size and then zoom; it’s really detailed.  I love how they included the people living in it on the map. 

Illustration of the Kowloon walled city.

Click to see the large size and then zoom; it’s really detailed.  I love how they included the people living in it on the map. 

gh0sttowns:

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong.

gh0sttowns:

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong.

gh0sttowns:

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong. Destroyed in 1994.

In the beginning it was just a small city but through time people started building more and more on top of the existing buildings to the point where it just became one building. Sunlight wouldn’t even make it into the the insides of the city so electricity was wired through the whole thing in order to have lamps set up in the halls.

I think they turned it into a park, I’m kind of sad I’ll never get to see it