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

Girard first visited Kowloon Walled City in 1986 while on a shoot at the nearby airport. At that time, around 350 buildings, up to 14 stories high, were packed precariously into a space of 0.01 ...

The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was once considered the densest settlement in the world. The sprawling neighbourhood was often characterised as a lawless enclave with poor living conditions ...

Kowloon Walled City was a chaotic and lawless enclave in the heart of in then British-controlled Hong Kong where some 35,000 lived cramped together within 26,000 square metres (6.4 acres).

Kowloon Walled City housed an uncountable number of stories about people who lived, breathed, and dreamed within that mesh of concrete, steel, pleasure, and pain haphazardly built upon each other.

Kowloon Walled City was a massive labyrinth of 300 interconnected buildings located just outside of Hong Kong, and was once among the most densely populated places on the planet.

The Kowloon Walled City was located in the northeast of the Kowloon Peninsula, on the main landmass of Hong Kong. Its origins trace back to the 1660s, when the locale became home to a minor military ...