# kowloon walled city

The second life of Kowloon Walled City: Crime, media and cultural memory - Alistair Fraser, Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, 2017 » Kowloon Walled City (hereafter KWC or Walled City), Hong Kong has been described as ‘one of history’s great anomalies’. The territory remained under Chinese rul… Journals.sagepub.com

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r/interestingasfuck on Reddit: Saw a diagram of the Kowloon walled city here, decided to share a real-life photo. » Posted by u/[Deleted Account] - 24,474 votes and 318 comments Reddit.com

From Garrisoned District to Chinese Town: Land and Boundaries at the Kowloon Walled City, 1898-1912 » The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong became a named entity around 1810 and was demolished in 1994, but its architecture had long been unclassified. Not until the years just prior to its demolition did this dense slum of informal multi-story buildings receive sustained attention from architects and architectural historians. However, the architectural nature of the six-acre area predated its late-20th-century state. After its founding as a Qing military outpost, it underwent various structural additions and renovations, including an imperial Chinese administrative complex known as a yamen (衙門) and an outer wall, after which the Walled City was named. Against the grain of scholarship that has focused on the Walled City’s postwar, informal architecture, this article considers the site’s early years, arguing that the Walled City’s yamen and outer wall played a crucial role in the region’s land management practices. These two architectural structures make legible the Walled City’s evolu Journal.eahn.org

r/MapPorn on Reddit: Kowloon Walled City 50,000 people in 0.026 km that's is insane ! Which place in the world do you think is the most similar to this "city of anarchy" ? » Posted by u/thecrazymapguy - 83 votes and 23 comments Reddit.com

7 Creepy Abandoned Cities | Kowloon walled city, Walled city, Abandoned cities » May 21, 2014 - Take a visual tour of seven creepy abandoned cities that are a stark living reminder of times and history long since past. Pinterest.com

Record Collector: Jon Howell (Less Art, Kowloon Walled City) » "A lot of the bullshit around record collecting relates to people being more stoked about limited runs…" Noecho.net