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Someone went to Kowloon walled city and said "Cool".

• Animats 6y ago
  There are parts of Shenzhen that look like that.[1] But with better structural soundness. Here's a ground level view.[2] (That's a full sphere video; you can change the view direction, including looking straight up.) This meets most of the criteria you see the "strong towns" people plugging for. Walkable streets. Convenient retail. Few cars. Very low speeds. Excellent land utilization. No space wasted on parking. Affordable. Of course, the people who write those articles wouldn't live in a place like that themselves. [1] https://earth.google.com/web/search/@22.54024647,114.06560828,20.66510478a,1105.83450886d,35y,75.7406347h,0t,0r https://earth.google.com/web/search/@22.54024647,114.0656082... [2] https://youtu.be/e-2n_HksLh0?t=220 https://youtu.be/e-2n_HksLh0?t=220
  • tomcam 6y ago
    [2] is an important historical document. Highly recommended.
  • m4rtink 6y ago
    Cool! It's nice to see there is something similar to to Kowloon Walled city still in existence. Last year we visited the Anata no Warehouse arcade in Kawasski, which had parts modeled after it. Unfortunatelly it closed at the end of November 2019: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/anata-no-warehouse https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/anata-no-warehouse
  • nemetroid 6y ago
    > This meets most of the criteria you see the "strong towns" people plugging for. Walkable streets. Convenient retail. Few cars. Very low speeds. Excellent land utilization. No space wasted on parking. Affordable. > Of course, the people who write those articles wouldn't live in a place like that themselves. This is like suggesting that people who value having their own backyard are being inconsistent by not moving into the remote countryside. There's nothing inconsistent in promoting a certain set of values within desiring those values taken to the extreme.