Kowloon Walled City: Hong Kong's City of Darkness

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Kowloon Walled City: Hong Kong's City of Darkness​

Imagine, if you will, a city of eternal night. A place so intensely crowded that sunlight never penetrates its alleyways. Overhead, wires dangle from the ceilings. Neon signs fizz in doorways. All around you, 33,000 people are crammed into self-built apartments barely 10m square, while overhead great airships rumble through sky. Is this a vision from the future? The setting, perhaps, for some dystopian sci-fi novel?

 

[Song Hong]

And it was ruled by organized crime.

In reality organized crime boss are elites in many nations.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Cities certainly aren't getting less dense as the years go by.

 

[JSCh]

I think that is why the recent HK protesters are majority young people.

Because young people never witness Kowloon - the sins of capitalism while growing up, unlike the older generation.

 

[_NOBODY_]

And it was ruled by organized crime.

In reality organized crime boss are elites in many nations.

It was a lot more than that. A lot of previous ordinary residents of the Kowloon Walled City have a lot of good things to say abut it and take pride in having been a part of this community. The fact that a place like this not only survived but thrived is unbelievable.

 

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The Densest City In The World Had A (Strange) Secret​

00:00 INTRO
01:18 KOWLOON WALLED CITY ORIGIN STORY
02:57 THE RHIZOME
08:00 DYNAMIC MENTAL MAPS
09:16 THE WALLS
10:27 THE HEART OF KOWLOON
11:56 THE SPIRIT OF KOWLOON