City Of Darkness Life In Kowloon Walled City 1993pdfl New !free! ◎

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To understand the Walled City, one must understand its unique political origins. Originally a small Chinese military fort, it became an accidental lawless zone due to a loophole in the 1898 lease of the New Territories to Great Britain. The fort remained Chinese territory, surrounded by a British colony. I can dive deeper into: | Area (Total)

The density was staggering. On a site measuring roughly 2.6 hectares (about the size of a few football fields), over 33,000 people lived at its peak. That translates to a population density of roughly 1,255,000 people per square kilometer. To walk through the City was to enter a labyrinth of corridors so narrow that sunlight never touched the ground. The "City of Darkness" was lit perpetually by fluorescent tubes, the only illumination in a world where the sky was reduced to a sliver seen through a tangle of electrical wires. The density was staggering