Why be an "architect" when you can be a "city planner"?
Amazing photos.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks a ton - fascinating. Since it is FR I can’t resist - a complete economic ecosystem with falling crime and residents wishing to stay - all with no official “governmentness”. Imagine, people figuring things out themselves without politicians pretending to know what they are doing. And the end, where the govt places no value on the windowless apartments and the owners saying screw that, we’ll stay, thank you.
There is a chinese restaurant north of Boston called the "Kowloon" and it can be quite crowded on a Friday or Saturday night. I always liked to go there as you could order scorpion bowls and fog cutters in the bar area while waiting for a table to become available.
cowloon? named for hillary clinton before here time??
Fascinating. Thanks.
Good thing this wasn’t on Guam, or the island would have tipped over.
Reminds me of the 20 story budget hotel I stayed in when I was in Kawloon in 1983 called the Chungking Mansions. Some of the rooms were as small as 8 ft long by 4 ft wide. The elevators were always packed and often overloaded so that the alarm went off and the last ones on had to get off so it would work. But the price was right in expensive Hong Kong.
I was going to say thanks for posting that but it seems so many already have. :) It makes me feel so grateful I was not born in a place like that. I imagine they were born and died in that hell hole and never knew any better. Terrible existence.
Incredible.
Looks like the movie “Blade Runner”
If you are a rodent...
“Pig Sty Alley”
Ungoverned by Health and Safety regulations,
Looks like Detroit...
The walled city was eventually torn down. A public park now occupies the site.
Fascinating stuff. I am currently reading a book about pre-revolutionary China. Chinese culture is pretty brutal.
Why be an "architect" when you can be a "city planner"?
Amazing, I was ignorant of all this history.