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Kowloon Walled City: City of Darkness Revisited
- kweks 11y agoInteresting article - certainly as it has a lot of photos that I'd not previously seen before. Further links for interested people: "Gweilo" - book about a british son of expats growing up in Hong Kong, and includes his visits the KWC http://www.amazon.com/Gweilo-Memories-Hong-Kong-Childhood-ebook/dp/B003GFIWHE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450046672&sr=8-1&keywords=gweilo http://www.amazon.com/Gweilo-Memories-Hong-Kong-Childhood-eb... The amazing maps made by a japanese team that went into the KWC just before it was destroyed. http://www.deconcrete.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Kowloon-Cross-section-low.jpg http://www.deconcrete.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Kowloon...
- theklub 11y agoAustrian documentary about it Worth watching > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w
- phodo 11y agoAlso, this from wsj ... similar footage but more modern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj_8ucS3lMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj_8ucS3lMY
- ekianjo 11y agoFor the gamers out there, Shenmue 2 spends a good chunk of its story in the walled city.
- platz 11y agothis is how I learned about the place too.
- pkaye 11y agoThe Jean Claude Van Dam movie Blood Sport has some shots taken in the walled city.
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- amatriain 11y agoSo does the recently released Shadowrun: Hong Kong.
- ekianjo 11y agoNice, I have it but did not try it yet - thanks for the reference.
- zukunftsalick 11y agoIn Japan they have a game arcade inspired by the KWC: http://randomwire.com/kowloon-walled-city-rebuilt-in-japan/ http://randomwire.com/kowloon-walled-city-rebuilt-in-japan/
- tedks 11y agoI always liked the SCP take on Kowloon: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-184 http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-184
- SkyMarshal 11y agoSeveral posts about this on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=kowloon%20walled%20city https://hn.algolia.com/?query=kowloon%20walled%20city
- medell 11y agoI particularly liked the WSJ multimedia feature / interactive story with video interviews of past residents at the top of your link: http://projects.wsj.com/kwc/ http://projects.wsj.com/kwc/
- sea6ear 11y agoThere's a book "Chasing the Dragon" by a English missionary (I think) that lived in the walled city. Nothing in the way of pictures, but pretty interesting details of daily life from her experiences there.
- visarga 11y agoA Chinese favela. There are still places that are like Kowloon, in many ways. (http://www.pulsamerica.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/favela.jpg http://www.pulsamerica.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/fave...)
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- vonnik 11y agoFwiw, William Gibson would visit the City of Darkness in search of inspiration for his dystopic cityscapes. Here's a description from Idoru (1997): > There was a place near an airport, Kowloon, when Hong Kong wasn't China, but there had been a mistake, a long time ago, and that place, very small, many people, it still belonged to China. So there was no law there. An outlaw place. And more and more people crowded in; they built it up, higher. No rules, just building, just people living. Police wouldn't go there. Drugs and whores and gambling. But people living, too. Factories, restaurants. A city. No laws. More here: http://gizmodo.com/5995070/kowloon-walled-city-remembering-the-chaotic-city-of-darkness http://gizmodo.com/5995070/kowloon-walled-city-remembering-t...
- jwarren 11y agoI bought this book from the Kickstarter project. It's beautiful and fascinating, totally worthwhile if you're interested.
- peterwwillis 11y agoI just visited Hong Kong, and most of the residents I asked had no idea what the hell the Walled City was.