Kowloon Walled City was the densest place in the world, ever. By its peak in the 1990s, the 6.5 acre Kowloon Walled City was home to at least 33,000 people (with estimates of up to 50,000). That’s a p...Show More
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zachlovespodcasts recommended:Aug 14th, 2019
first episode from this podcast and it was so good
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Welcome to the wonderful world of 99% Invisible!
epekilis recommended:Nov 15th, 2020
A forgotten little sliver of land between Hong Kong and China was, for a time ungoverned by either. It became a primordial soup of unbridled and unlicensed urban development; a real life escape hatch for the poor and the outlawed. This episode of 99PI together with episode 67 (Broken Window) are pr...Show More
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jennx recommended:Dec 30th, 2020
I first saw images of the Kowloon Walled City by a Canadian photographer named Fred Girard (who is featured in this podcast). It was unlike any infrastructure I’ve ever seen
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epekilisDec 30th, 2020
@jennx Wasn’t this episode amazing? I vividly remember being so excited about this episode when I first heard it many years ago that I started pulling up the photos of the Walled City in the boardroom at work and everybody clustering round the screen looking at photos of the nets that stopped the g...Show More
jennxDec 30th, 2020
@epekilis such a great episode indeed! I remember seeing this really striking image of 3 kids playing on a rooftop full of antennas and wires as well as a dimly lit butchers shop. It truly is a fantastical space. There’s a place in Japan that recreated it into a park!