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The second life of Kowloon Walled City: Crime, media and cultural memory - Alistair Fraser, Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, 2017 » Kowloon Walled City (hereafter KWC or Walled City), Hong Kong has been described as ‘one of history’s great anomalies’. The territory remained under Chinese rul… Journals.sagepub.com

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From Garrisoned District to Chinese Town: Land and Boundaries at the Kowloon Walled City, 1898-1912 » The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong became a named entity around 1810 and was demolished in 1994, but its architecture had long been unclassified. Not until the years just prior to its demolition did this dense slum of informal multi-story buildings receive sustained attention from architects and architectural historians. However, the architectural nature of the six-acre area predated its late-20th-century state. After its founding as a Qing military outpost, it underwent various structural additions and renovations, including an imperial Chinese administrative complex known as a yamen (衙門) and an outer wall, after which the Walled City was named. Against the grain of scholarship that has focused on the Walled City’s postwar, informal architecture, this article considers the site’s early years, arguing that the Walled City’s yamen and outer wall played a crucial role in the region’s land management practices. These two architectural structures make legible the Walled City’s evolu Journal.eahn.org

r/MapPorn on Reddit: A cross-sectional map of the Kowloon Walled City, once the most dense city on earth [4716x1754] » Posted by u/flatlythrow818 - 13 votes and 4 comments Reddit.com

Found Audio » Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable… Goodreads.com

Heavy Experimental Band Celebrates New Album on Both Sides of the Bay » Oakland-based heavy-music iconoclasts Kowloon Walled City celebrate the recent release of their latest album 'Piecework' with two shows Saturday afternoon and evening on both sides of San Francisco Bay. Cbsnews.com

City Beautiful: Pop-Up Cities » This week’s City Beautiful starts from a post on BLDG Blog about a forthcoming book,  Short Stories: London in Two-and-a-Half Dimensions. Authors CJ Lim and Ed Liu create a new genre of ̶… Encounteringurbanization.wordpress.com