Mildly-related: HK[0] is an in-dev videogame about a cat in a not-Kowloon-but-similar walled city. 0: https://hk-devblog.com/2015/10/07/first-step/
This looks fantastic!
Kowloon Walled City
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#12I love Kowloon because it feels very r/outrun. I'm sure actually living there probably sucked though.
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#13I love Kowloon because it feels very r/outrun. I'm sure actually living there probably sucked though.
Just for the record 'Kowloon Walled City' (now a pleasant public park) was a few blocks contained within Kowloon, the name for the part of Hong Kong on the mainland directly across from the Island ... Kowloon is very much alive and kicking and a vibrant city
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#14There’s an excellent episode of the 99percent invisible podcast about Kowloon, which was the first time I heard about it. Would recommend a listen (and the podcast as a whole)
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-66-kowloon-wa...
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#15I love Kowloon because it feels very r/outrun. I'm sure actually living there probably sucked though.
Just for the record 'Kowloon Walled City' (now a pleasant public park) was a few blocks contained within Kowloon, the name for the part of Hong Kong on the mainland directly across from the Island ... Kowloon is very much alive and kicking and a vibrant city
Yeah, last year my gf and I were in HK and we went over to that side of the water. Being a good internet denizen, I'd seen the walled city pop up several times. I couldn't get it out of my head as we walked through that lovely park. What a wild transformation :)
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#16the WSJ did an incredibly cool project on Kowloon Walled City some years ago, this was shared on HN and it's one of the nicest websites on the topic I've seen.
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#17Also the namesake of a really good bay area metal band https://kowloonwalledcity.bandcamp.com/
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#18I first heard about it on 99% invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-66-kowloon-wa.... I recommend it if you have 15mins.
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#19Fascinating every time I read about it. Found a nice infographic: http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
Thanks for sharing this infographic. Today is the first time I've ever heard about Kowloon Walled City. I was immediately intrigued, because it looks like something out of science fiction. It reminds me of just how breathtakingly diverse the human experience can be.
I first heard about it in a cyberpunk video game, Shadowrun: Hong Kong, and learned today that it is real. It felt like truly something out of science fiction back when I was playing the game.
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#20Who says video games can’t be educational? I first learned about the Kowloon Walled City from the Call of Duty: Black Ops map. I was fascinated with exploring the map of a dystopian future resulting from poor social policies. Chicken coops twelve stories up, hole-the-wall convenience stores and makeshift restaurants. And for some reason the map designers put it next to an airport, so there airliners flying right above your head. What? This place actually exists? Man, what a Wikipedia rabbit hole that turned out to be.
I’m kind of sad to see it gone because it was like having a small version of Blade Runner in our time. But more important, actual humans lived there, and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.