I just stumbled across this and found it so fascinating I had to share it.This place was a chaotic mess of roughly 35.000 – 40.000 apartments stuffed into houses that were fused together. People who lived there described the place as cages, people being born – living and dying in there like animals in shelters. This place was dark during the day and even darker when the sun went down. Drugs, crimes and no laws. This place was loud – fans, ACs and thousands of people. All you could see at night were the dim neon lights coming from some of the windows.
This place was demolished in April of 1994 but is remembered to this day and even has a park were it was located. The park stores some historical artefacts and a model of this giant monstrosity.
Whilst the walled city doesn't exist anymore, similar structures still exist and are lived in to this day.
I hope this fits the cyberpunk category.
Would you ever live in a place like this?
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There’s a horror game about this! I think it’s called Welcome To Kowloon.
Delivering packages there must have been a nightmare. It definitely sounds dystopian, to be stuck in a place like that.
An infamous place! And definitely the inspiration for a TON of cyberpunk. And hilariously Kung Fu Hustle.
the game Stray was inspired by the Kowloon Walled City. i just watched Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, that’s set in the city. pretty neat set
I read a novel recently based on it called The Walled City. Tbh it was pretty depressing and not written very well, maybe a 6/10 read
There is documentary footage of the inside. Hygiene was non existent, everything was dark, people crammed together like animals, including children. Always seemed like a horror movie.
Apparently some former residents have nostalgia for it
Recently, I finally got “City of Darkness” about the city. Love it. Anyone interested in cyberpunk would enjoy the depictions of life there. It’s not just pictures, but very extensive descriptions of life inside the city from multiple different angles
https://imgur.com/a/whdylTN
I hope it fits? There are dozens of posts about Kowloon already 🙂
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/search/?q=kowloon](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/search/?q=kowloon)
It’s not that there were no laws, it’s that there weren’t enough police to enforce them — and the triads had a lot more manpower and influence.
It features prominently in the Shadowrun: Hong Kong game.
Still safer than America