City of Imagination: Kowloon Walled City 20 Years Later

They shouls have never demolished the place

Welcome to the future of Humanity.

Grand Theft Auto really needs to create a game based on the city the way gangs lived there is no joke😂😂😂

April 2014... TAKE ME BACK PLS 😪

“…where crime commerce and community coexisted…” nice wordplay there.

Best city ever! If you think about the true anarchy which lies in the core of free market capitalism....the walled city is the very essence of it. No rules, no regulations, no trade barriers, as is evident in the lucrative drug trade, and unlicensed medical practitioners.
While Western people are too uneducated in the realm of basic economics and politics to comprehend it: this city is/was indeed the essence of very free market capitalism.

City of Memory

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Allen Frank Robinson Deborah Lee Anthony

Martinez Kevin Martinez Gary Martinez David

Most overrated place ever LOL.

I think if contemporary structural engineering had (somehow, with a “solar-punk” influence) been adhered to, with a dominant crime and maintenance force, it could have been a wonderful place to live.
I see something that went wrong BUT could have gone right.

amazing

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Wilson William Jones Brenda Thompson Nancy

Taylor Kimberly Clark Paul Garcia Betty

No way the WSJ used the actual SCP-106 noise

Probably had a nice sense of community and you were never alone. An increasing problem these days.

Wish they still had it

😂🤣😅😆😁 Did You saw Margaret smelling?

It seems cool and mysterious to me.

I live somewhere similar

No

This place looks like where game makers get their ideas.

Not a slum? Uhn?

Klaus Schwab cried his eyes out when it was demolished.

I bet it was safer to be in there than out onnthe streets as the crime was organized and was consequences if u stole or committed a crime against a regular person there were groups that would walk single women home and the triads took care of the garbage disposal and settled desputes between business

I'm 27, American and had never heard of the walled city. I used to dream of it. Walking the alleys exploring various chambers and walking up many many stairs. There was an atrium with a tall ceiling and a gangway up top that led to a small tunnel you could crawl through on hands and knees which led outside to a roof top alley way. It was night time outside. I remember coming across a convenient store on the upper levels below the residential floors. It only had enough room for one person to stand and another person to sit atop the counter in the back. There was no door you had to climb over the front counter to get into the small space. There was red and white signage with Chinese written on it, and it was the only lit up space in the corridor. To the right were 2 sets of stairs going up and a long dark corridor, and to the left around the corner was the set of stairs going down. Everything was concrete. With graffiti, trash, and chain link fences. I came across these documentaries and remember this place from my dreams. I was sad to find it had been torn down, and i wouldn't get to see it. One day I'll make my way to the recreation in Japan.

Here in Brazil still have lots of KWC´s now😥 like "Favela da Rocinha" in Rio de Janeiro and "Heliópolis" in São Paulo. So good and worker people in bad conditions of life. Pray someday all families will live better in good places and those favelas be part only of history. :)

I mean it must have been hellish to live in, being as cramped and dirty as it was, but that sense of community must have been amazing.

“When they died, their relatives put their bodies in the restroom”

Jesus Christ…

I think Kowloon seems kinda cool in its own weird way.

Dropped this when they called prostitutes "sex workers". Yeah right, and the arabian dudes who hang out at the local train station are medical workers, not drug dealers.

The WSJ left out a key point. The two wars that the Chinese lost to the British were the opium wars. Essentially, the Chinese government was trying to prevent the British from pushing opium in China. That was the real source of the problem. The British were drug pushers.

I studied this place extensively. It features prominently in the BSC classes I teach.

Ofcourse a british accent hippie chinese dude bring up its :"architecture"

The beginnings of a Warhammer Hive City

That arcade closed during covid.

this is what I think of when those old hong kong crime films

surprised there was no massive fire that killed everyone

amazing

Heard of this before but looking into it more now after the horror game Welcome to Kowloon

I was expected to see a lot of odd people but it seems they were just poor and kind people.

For anyone wondering - the junkie ate cats eye because its believed by some chinese people that if you have problem with leg - you need to eat a leg, if you have a problem with heart - you need to eat a heart to heal it

This reminds me of Levele di scampia both very interesting places😮

Bro a cat’s eyes…..😳