By the time it was demolished in 1994 the Kowloon Walled City, a settlement on two hectares of Hong Kong, was home to 35,000 people. The enclave had a long and storied history.

Kowloon Walled City was the logical if not inevitable form for a slum to take in Hong Kong, a reach-for-the-sky approach on a limited 2.6 hectare site, in a city where it is not uncommon to build ...

Known as “the city of darkness,” Kowloon Walled City was a crowded, tangled metropolis of 60,000 people with little political or legal oversight.

At its peak, the city, which measured just 2.7 hectares (around 290,000 square feet), had a population density of 1.92 million per square kilometer (that’s about 4.97 million per square mile) ...

A migrant from China to Hong Kong (Raymond Lam) winds up in the Kowloon Walled City, where he befriends mobsters, in Soi Cheang’s lavishly funded yet edgy film, a spectacle let down by its ...

In his article titled "The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City," James Crawford noted that the city, with an area of around one-hundredth of a square mile, housed "350 buildings, almost all ...

The Kowloon Walled City's mystique has outlived the city itself. It existed as a hyper-densely populated and ungoverned area of Hong Kong for thirty years or so, from the 1960's through until its ...