{"id":1137,"date":"2015-08-16T16:41:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T16:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2015-08-16T16:41:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T16:41:41","slug":"hong-kong-kowloon-walled-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Kowloon Walled City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greg Girard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Between the 1950s and 1994, tens of thousands of immigrants constructed a towering community 12 stories high across a 6.4-acre lot in Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was called Kowloon Walled City<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

With a population of 33,000 squeezed into the tiny lot,\u00a0the city was\u00a0119 times denser at peask than present-day New York City. Although it faced high levels of crime and poor sanitation, the city was also impressively self-sustainable \u2014 until its demolition\u00a0in\u00a01993.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Greg<\/a>
Greg Girard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the late eighties, Canadian photographer Greg Girard found his way into the windowless world.<\/span><\/p>\n

He shared some photos and thoughts on his time in Kowloon Walled City with us here.\u00a0You can check out the rest of his photos together with essays and work\u00a0from photographer Ian Lambot in the recently released book\u00a0„City of Darkness: Revisited.“<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/the-surreal-mania-of-chinas-kowloon-walled-city-2015-8#ixzz3izrNOTHD<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer who has spent much of his career in Asia. His work examines the social and physical transformations taking place throughout the region.<\/span>\u00a0He is represented by Monte Clark Gallery (Vancouver\/Toronto) and also works on assignment for publications such as National Geographic Magazine.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.greggirard.com<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Between the 1950s and 1994, tens of thousands of immigrants constructed a towering community 12 stories high across a 6.4-acre lot in Hong Kong. It was called Kowloon Walled City. With a population of 33,000 squeezed into the tiny lot,\u00a0the city was\u00a0119 times denser at peask than present-day New York City. Although it faced high … Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}