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an old building with lots of windows and balconies

The City's dozens of alleyways were often only 1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ft) wide, and had poor lighting and drainage.[18] An informal network of staircases and passageways also formed on upper levels, which was so extensive that one could travel north to south through the entire City without ever touching solid ground.[4] cyborganthropology.com/Kowloon_Walled_City

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an alley way with lots of items on the floor and lights hanging from the ceiling

Up until the 1994, there existed, just north of Kowloon Bay, a bizarre city in Hong Kong named Kowloon Walled City. Over time the veritable lawless (and unclaimed by any government) Kowloon Walled City became a curious stack of cheaply constructed boxes through which ran a maze of dark alleys and exposed pipe and wiring and housed drug dealers and addicts, pimps and prostitutes, organized gangs, gambling dens, criminal headquarters, and private citizens all living together in a tangled mess…

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many balconies and windows on the side of an apartment building in hong kong

Greg Girard on Instagram: "Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, 1987. Over 300 interconnected high-rise buildings packed into a HK city block, built without permits or contributions from architects. While it stood it was the most densely populated place on earth. Demolished in 1992. www.greggirardpictures.com #cityofdarkness #cityofdarknessrevisited #kowloonwalledcity #kowloon #kowlooncity #urbandensity #hkarchitecture #hk #hkhistory #urbanfabric #cityscape #filmphotography #greggirard"

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an old building with people walking around it

Description One of the Oldest buildings in Kowloon City. They are contemplating whether to tear this down to build a new high rise building. Again, Nikon D40 with 18-55mm Lense in RAW and then it went into Photoshop and then through Photomatix and Photoshop again.

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