Reposting this old link for posterity. Great book that someone posted on old megachan. Thanks go to the original uploader. City of Darkness - Life in Kowloon Walled City http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NQDKKPOT Also: ryce, what's the protocol for thin kind of thread. It's not an imagedump but it's /city/ material.
It's not my place, but since it's /city/ I find it worthy information. Perhaps we could add more /city/ reading to the thread? Also could you give a brief description of what the book is about and how it relates to /city/?
>>220 It's a book about Kowloon Walled City which was this sort of agglomeration or structures built on top of each other until it got extremely dense. The book has information on where people got food and how mail was delivered and stuff but the most interesting part (far me at least) was seeing the photos of cramped and crooked corridors with crap jutting out in every direction and little house cubicles stacked up to form this crazy structure. Overall a very weird place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City Here is a nice cityscape of the city on Kowloon, in which the walled city resided.
Ah, it's good that I located your post - I was about to make a new thread on the subject as I just recovered the same link from my msn message history. Thanks for beating me to it! Here's some more unorganized visual material on the Walled City: http://youhadbetterknow.com/knowledgezone/?p=649
>>312 I have a larger version, but, despite the filesize limit apparently being 5120K, it (2497K) won't upload. Sorry.
http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/visit/nga-tsin-wai-kowloons-last-walled-village-981338?hpt=C2 I would find a better source than CNN, but I just woke up.
>>340 A shame the last of these "walled cities" is slated for death. It would have been nice should even one of them be left standing.
>>566 For clarification, the route in blue marks the path of the man in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSnvqBhWUOc ...from what I'm told, anyway. I'm not entirely sure and haven't spent the time to verify.
>>560 >>559 Are these the full resolution images?
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>>590 I think they come from the book that was released by the Japanese explorers. These are the only scans I've ever seen of it. I believe there are a number of rare japanese publications detailing it. Little of which has been scanned.
German documentary on Kowloon from 1989, with English subtitles, split into 4 parts on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w
Fucking hell you guys are wanderful. I love this type of urban archetecture.
>>577 That's a wonderful img. Really helps to understand the way it was populated along the years. Is it available in bigger res nywhere?
>>632 http://arch1932010-kwcandcrusoe.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html No idea tbh.
This thread is just what I needed. I'm in the process of writing a graphic novel that takes place in a Kowloon-like environment.
>>656 hey, thanks for the link. It's been a while since I last came here.
