Saturday, September 6, 2008

Kowloon Walled City

Excellent photos from a page lamenting the destruction and improper documentation of a socially and architecturally unique human event. I share his lament and add that this is proof that when a zone of freedom is created, people will live there regardless of other conditions.

This is the freedom that only technology can give us at this point.

kowloon-walled-city-exterior.jpg

Unfortunately, the location was largely undocumented and it looks
like the book above is one of the most complete and easy-to-access
resources I could find on KWC. If anybody knows of any other place I
can see photos and read information, please pass that info along to me!

There are great aerial photos of KWC at deputydog.

kowloon-walled-city-rubbish-alley.jpg




Beautiful and atrocious, like life generally eh?

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