"City of Anarchy": A high resolution schematic of Kowloon Walled City by Adolfo Arranz for SCMP
It uses information and #photography from "The Darkness City: Life in Kownloon Walled City" by Greg Girard and Ian Lambot as well as the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong
This location was the origin of many #Cyberpunk tropes
Higher resolution version is available here: https://i.imgur.com/5EgtSjj.jpg
An Austrian camera crew did a documentary about the city in 1988 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rj8m7Ssow
Subtitles in English
@cypnk interesting, because this tv report doesn't romantically idealise the situation of the people who lived there, unlike the info image in the first toot (which i had seen before)
@ente That’s why I included it here. I felt it was important to see the outside and inside perspective
@ente @cypnk all although I'd doubt the objective approach of a documentary which uncritically features a woman "healing" drug addicts from their addiction with prayer and spirituality.
anyway, very interesting #cyberpunk stuff. and cyberpunk is always ambiguous about romantics and misery.... #dystopiaIsFun