Architects and designers once hailed Kowloon Walled City as the closest thing to a self-regulating, self-sustaining modern city that had ever been built. If the high-rise was supposed to be the ...

A place of lawless anarchy, it was torn down in 1994 and passed into the stuff of legend. Then it reappeared, in a way. An arcade in Japan modeled its interior after the Walled City and for years ...

Kowloon City was once a densely populated area in Hong Kong, with about 50,000 people living in an area roughly half the size of the Tokyo Dome. There is footage that records life and production ...

33,000 people lived and worked in Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. It was the area of an average city block, making it 119 times as dense as New York.

Hong Kong artist Bianca Tse has created whimsical AI images of the notorious Kowloon Walled City, a warren of slum buildings in the city demolished in 1993 and 1994. She talks about what inspired ...

The Kowloon Walled City's mystique has outlived the city itself. It existed as a hyper-densely populated and ungoverned area of Hong Kong for thirty years or so, from the 1960's through until its ...

Between the 1950s and 1994, tens of thousands of immigrants constructed a towering community 12 stories high across a 6.4-acre lot in Hong Kong. It was called Kowloon Walled City. With a ...

Designed based on the "Kowloon Walled City" concept, the interior and exterior decoration of the Yat Tung Street Market include establishments such as large aircraft flying low over the city, hair ...

Kowloon Walled City — one of Hong Kong’s most famous landmarks, or infamous trouble spots, depending on your point of view — fell prey to the developers’ bulldozer 30 years ago.