Business Insider: Inside Hong Kong’s lawless ‘walled city’ — the most crowded place on Earth for 40 years
From the 1950s until 1994, over 33,000 people lived and worked in Kowloon Walled City, a massive complex of 300 interconnected buildings that took up a city block. Read the full article here
CBC: Dark tower of dreams: Inside the Walled City of Kowloon
The infamous “Walled City of Kowloon” was once the most populous spot on the planet. With 1.2 million people per square kilometre, it was a gigantic squatter’s village. Nobody planned it, but somehow it worked, until it was demolished, just before the British handed Hong Kong back to China. Paul Kennedy speaks with photographer Greg […]
Creative Boom: Greg Girard’s nocturnal photographs of Hong Kong’s Night Life in the 1970s and ’80s
HK:PM is Greg Girard’s ode to nocturnal Hong Kong between 1974 and 1989, the earliest work of the photographer’s long relationship with Asia. A journey exploring the underside of a city he first visited as a teenager in 1974 later lived in for 15 years. Read the full article here