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Kowloon Walled City (Chinese: 九龍寨城) was an extremely densely populated and largely lawless enclave within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Built as an imperial Chinese military fort , the walled city became a de jure enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom in 1898.
Kowloon Walled City, a former enclave of Hong Kong; Nanjing, ... Venetian 7.5 km long walls, 95% still remain, 30.000 people live now inside the Venecian walls. Two ...
The Kowloon Walled City itself was demolished in 1993. The same area was called Kwun Fu Cheung ... As of 2011, 2,108,419 people lived in Kowloon. [6]
Kowloon City: Hong Kong: China: ... Kowloon Walled City – the now-razed extremely dense ... with the highest that of Barangay 717 at 277,007.3 people per ...
As of 2005, there were 346 shanty towns in Beijing, housing 1.5 million people. [26] Author Robert Neuwirth wrote that around six million people, half the population of Istanbul lived in gecekondu areas. [27] In Hong Kong, the Kowloon Walled City housed up to 50,000 people, [28] with rooftop slums currently providing some additional housing.
More than 7 million people live on about 1,108 km 2 (427 mi 2) ... Kowloon Walled City; Sub-standard housing. Subdivided flat; Cage home; Policies. Land use
Photographed between 1986 and 1992, Girard's Kowloon Walled City photographs form the basis for the books City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City and City of Darkness Revisited, a record of the final years of the infamous Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong: a largely self-governing enclave of more than 35,000 people living in 300 ...
By 1990, the Kowloon Walled City contained 50,000 residents within its 2.6-hectare (6.4-acre) borders. (from History of Hong Kong ) Image 28 Wing Lung Wai , a walled village in Kam Tin; Hong Kong indigenous people built walled villages to protect themselves from rampant privates between 15th to 19th century.