Kowloon Walled City

Zwielicht · Mar 3, 2026

This is a pretty interesting read about what was referred to as the densest city on Earth.

Kowloon Walled City - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Here’s video going over it as well.

Outlaw · Mar 3, 2026

Z knows he has a few wasters afoot

Thanks for the video for us densefullyful brained folk

Dopious · Mar 3, 2026

Cool, but world does not learn, here is a 100,000 residential units and 9,000 hotel rooms project that is supposed to be finished 2030.

The World’s Largest Building Breaks Ground in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The Mukaab will cost $50 billion, and will be roughly the size of 20 Empire State Buildings

www.architecturaldigest.com

FrankImawn · Mar 3, 2026

Maybe it's just me but it would've been really cool to see something like that in person. I know it's not fun for the people living there but what I read about it talked about how tight knit the communities were.

GoldenGlovez · Mar 3, 2026

It was a major influence of the cyberpunk genre. I lived and worked around the Hong Kong area for a good number of years, it was obviously torn down by then, but the city is one of my favorites in the world.

There are some movies that were filmed there before it was demolished, a favorite of mine being Bloodsport.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092675/

Champagne · Mar 4, 2026

Interesting that this is brought up here. I’ve always been interested in the Walled City of Kowloon. Fortunately, but also unfortunately, the walled city no longer exists, as it was demolished for safety reasons, I believe. But it’s still fascinating how many people lived there and how things actually worked there.

notNewB · Mar 4, 2026

That's an entire isolated community in its own ecosystem, with own artificial government. It'd be cool to live in such a place in an ideal world where the governing party cared about the community but alas, the reality isn't like that. They must have zero sanitation, zero civility, prostitution at its highest, maybe even cannibalization.

ggmopa · Mar 4, 2026

Getting 'Dredd' vibes from this lol

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