The only Chinese settlement allowed in British territory in HongKong was the over-saturated Kowloon walled city, once the most dense place of the planet. Before its destruction in 1993, a Japanese team could map informal housing in the interior of this amazing maze, drawing a cross-section of this squatting paradise.
(via deconcrete - everyday urbanisms without architects’ architectures)
You have to, have to, have to click on the image and see the insanity up close. You couldn’t drop a coin in one of these apartments without 10 families hearing you — if they could hear you over the noise, anyway.
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