• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Fascinating video!

    I went looking for some footage of Kowloon a few months ago and I couldn’t find anything. I’m glad she recorded this while she could.

    I watched the Jackie Chan movie Crime Story to get a glimpse, and they had some amazing scenes, but everyone had already moved out. It did have some crazy cool action scenes though with some long cuts.

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    12 days ago

    Kowloon Walled City is really fascinating in the most dystopian way. It’s such a shame that there is no good, high quality footage really documenting the place.

    And it’s mind blowing to me that it was originally built in the 1840s. I would have guessed 1940s or 1950s. But no. Crazy. And for the longest time, I thought that it was just housing. But no, as you see in this video, it really was like its own city, but trapped inside of these dark, dank, crowded buildings.

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      11 days ago

      Well I think a lot of it was built over time. That may have been when it started but it evolved more organically than most cities due to lack of top-down planning.