Kowloon Walled City: Hong Kong s City of Darkness

Check my other channel Biographics! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ Imagine, if you will, a city of eternal night. A place so intensely crowded that sunlight never penetrates its alleyways. Overhead, wires dangle from the ceilings. Neon signs fizz in doorways. All around you, 33,000 people are crammed into self-built apartments barely 10m square, while overhead great airships rumble through sky. Is this a vision from the future? The setting, perhaps, for some dystopian sci-fi novel? → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw?sub_confirmation=1 Our sister channels: Biographics - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ TopTenz - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Morris M. Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Source/Further reading: Concise history of the Walled City: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1581649/kowloon-walled-citys-fight-exist (some history and accounts of a happier side): https://www.archdaily.com/800698/heres-what-western-accounts-of-the-kowloon-walled-city-dont-tell-you Interesting documentary by the Wall Street Journal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj_8ucS3lMY WSJ Interactive: https://projects.wsj.com/kwc/#chapter=people BBC footage from inside the Walled City at the time (1980) (good footage, but reportage focused on the negatives): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchVQMuxRVA Average US bedroom size: https://www.doorwaysmagazine.com/average-bedroom-size/#targetText=We%20determined%20that%20the%20average,14%20feet%20by%2016%20feet.