TIL Kowloon Walled City existed and is the real world origin for many visual representations of oppressive urbanization in cyberpunk media - Lemmy.world

I came across a video on Youtube discussing it (there are several), and Kowloon Walled City is just endlessly fascinating. A few notable videos I found on the subject were: The Densest City on Earth [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YuNvIfM-YA] Kowloon Walled City: Hong Kong’s City of Darkness [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcSBOUpgngM] Inside Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fd56CGnVRU] There is also a book on the city called City Of Darkness Life In Kowloon Walled City [https://archive.org/details/city-of-darkness-life-in-kowloon-walled-city-1993], which I found on archive.org [http://archive.org] in high resolution. It is full of photographs and detailed accounts of the comings and goings within the enclave.