A rare insight into Kowloon (photos)

[Lord Percy]

Daily Mail article but who cares, the pictures are interesting

Kowloon is a place I've only really heard the name of - I'm a bit too young to know much about it - so... yeah... interesting

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insight-Kowloon-Walled-City.html

[Clanger]

It doesn't look like that now.
But living is still quite cramped. The hostel I stayed in, on Nathan Road, Kowloon was a really narrow complex. I was a bit surprised when I first went in. The whole of HK is crammed into and onto a few islands. But the people all seem to live in relative harmony together.
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[Lord Percy]

Sorry yeah I should have added - I think the photos are from the times before government intervention. When it was all made bric-a-brac without a single architect and no structural health and safety measures.

[P.addy]

Enjoyed the map on Black Ops.

[Knightsy]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/05/article-0-12EF340A000005DC-165_964x736.jpg

The fact that they've managed to keep the place intact for so long is pretty impressive by itself.

P.S Black Ops made it look a lot bigger
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[_Will_]

Very interesting looking place.

Expect many more places just like it in times ahead of us, they will be refuges for those who won't conform to a slave system.

Reality really does move faster than science fiction.
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[delsol]

Just shows you what can be done.

[keggyhander]

The "Kumite" in the J.C. Van Damme film "Blood Sport" took place in there if my memory serves correctly. It was obviously a studio set but it showed them walking through the walled city to get to it.

[Mr Nice Guy]

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Yeah it sounds like a pretty cool place. Got knoced down around 1990.

It was featured heavily in this game (which is set in the 80's), although not sure how well it was represented:



https://cdn0.spong.com/pack/s/h/shenmue2183110l/_-Shenmue-2-Dreamcast-_.jpg

There is also a documentary about it on youtube somewhere (german w/ english subs I think)
EDIT: found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w
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[Yoyo]

So that is where most of BCF lives.
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[kramdra]

Interesting place.


Im wondering how it was built, was it planned to be that big, or did it get bigger?

Similarly did it have a pretty amazing sewer system or did people just shit on those below them?

[DrSnoosnoo]

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