Kowloon Walled City: Inside the Most Crowded Place on Earth
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Published 2024-04-29
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I hope the ai depictions stop, I want to see the real pictures not what some software thinks it looked like.
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Back to 90’s , I was a cop , no cops were dare to enter the wall city , even something emergency happened, we went with 6-7 people. And , we were always lost the direction
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I saw a Geographics on this same place. Host looked similar, too.
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If I could be a fly on the wall in any place during modern times, it would be Kowloon Walled City. There's something so fascinatingly dystopian yet appealing about it.
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How am I STILL finding Simon channels I'm not subscribed to yet. 😂
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For anyone who didn't know, some scenes of the 1988 film Bloodsport were actually filmed inside the city
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Even if it was a health hazard and ofc nobody should live in such conditions, it's still sort of sad that it's gone like what a masterpiece of people just getting along and building their own community. it would've been so incredibly fascinating to see irl
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I remember flying into the old Hong Kong airport throughout the 80s and 90s well over a dozen times and skimming over the top of the walled city and Kowloon generally. You could clearly see the people on the roofs. You flew so low it felt like the planes landing gear might touch the aerials and clothes lines on the roofs. Bye the way, Kowloon or Zhou Long in Mandarin means nine dragons. That's what the posters on the wall in the video mean...
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Served in HK from 1984-87. Not on the island or in Kowloon but up in the NT in Sek Kong. Best posting of my life. Have actually walked through this place, with my gf, heading for somewhere else. 23, young and stupid and didn't realise how dangerous it could have been, but nobody paid us any mind.....apart from a few curious looks.
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once in a while I like to revisit the places of my childhood. Every now and again I'll find an old house I once lived in, or a school I once attended had been knocked down to be replaced by something else. I couldn't imagine how it would feel to never be able to see anything from your childhood again, had you grown up there. What a fascinating place to grow into the world.
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Kowloon Walled City was the inspiration for 1995 movie Ghost in the Shell!
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I Watch the Geographics video on Kowloon every couple months and daydream. The last time I watched it was less than 24 hours ago. Crazy timing!
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Kowloon fascinates me. It really does show how deeply, as a species, we have lost sight of what is essential for survival and the luxuries we now declare we have 'right' to.
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Kowloon Walled City would have a population density similar to the entire 8.1 billion people world population packed inside of the US state of Delaware which is 1,955 square miles big. A population density of 4,143,223 people per square mile if the world population were to crowd the very first US state admitted to the union.
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There’s an excellent essay by William Gibson (author of seminal cyberpunk work, Neuromancer) that compares the wildness and chaos of KWC and the ultra-clean ultra-modern ultra-controlled image that Singapore was fast becoming at the time. “Disneyland with the death penalty”.
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Still sad that I never got to see Kowloon, truely a unique place
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I hope one day someone makes a digital forensic effort to recreate this place that has captured the imagination of so many as accurately as possible. It's like seeing culture grow into a wilderness in the shape of multistory modern architecture, something that only exist in fiction nowadays and then only because of how those depictions where informed by the reality of this very place. Any fan of near future sci-fi and cyberpunk keep encountering the echo of this place in those worlds they traverse.
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Fantastic topic and video. This place has always fascinated me. One niggling complaint, although I understand the reason, fewer AI images would be nice when real ones do exist 😊 Keep up the fantastic shows
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Wow 2 million people per square kilometer. Now that's crazy 😮😮
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Dami Lee also did an amazing job of explaining the architectural aspects of this city
