Looks cool, but what a mess this must have been for the city. I mean, what if someone at the center needed to get to a hospital? Must have been a nightmare for police as well. And I can only imagine the massive safety threats from massive amounts of random power cords, possibly contaminated water, and building code issues (what if there had been an earthquake?).

Hate to see cool historical buildings go, but sometimes unfortunately they just have no place in the modern world.

iNcontroL

USA29055 Posts

December 17 2010 19:25 GMT

#65

Amazing read. Thanks for doing this.

3clipse

Canada2555 Posts

December 17 2010 19:33 GMT

#66

Yeah, I've been fascinated with Kowloon Walled City for the past couple years. Wish it were still around. :/ Would have been amazing to visit.

jstar

Canada568 Posts

December 17 2010 19:38 GMT

#67

I don't think the level in Black Ops is Kowloon Wall City, but just Kowloon in general.

Either way, very interesting and cool stuff. I'm born in HK and I didn't even know such a thing existed.

Logo

United States7542 Posts

December 17 2010 19:38 GMT

#68

The Narrows from Dark Knight were based off this area as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City#Batman_Begins

Xxio

Canada5565 Posts

December 17 2010 19:49 GMT

#69

I never knew about this, it's very interesting. It reminds me a little of the movie Metropolis - I'm guessing the triads who ran the place lived on the upper levels where living conditions were better.

MassHysteria

United States3678 Posts

December 17 2010 19:55 GMT

#70

More TL threads need to be made like this one. So interesting and thought-provoking.

OmniscientSC2

United States713 Posts

December 17 2010 19:57 GMT

#71

Wooooow. That's pretty cool! Reminds me of that Anime where children were playing hide and go seek. Or something. Forgot what it was called =\

ZeroCartin

Costa Rica2390 Posts

December 17 2010 20:09 GMT

#72

Holy crap, that is so impressive. I wonder what happened tothe people that lived there.

MrShank

Canada144 Posts

December 17 2010 20:11 GMT

#73

looks like garbage city

VeNoM HaZ Skill

United States1528 Posts

December 17 2010 20:23 GMT

#74

Awesome thread.

But to the people saying that it would have been amazing to visit:
Rampant disease, prostitutes, assassins, drugs, gangs, crime...

How about you start with a nice little field trip to your local housing projects for starts, and maybe after that (if you live), you might want to visit the slums in Bangladesh, and admire the child labor facilities...

Do you have mental disorders or what? The whole damn city was demolished because of how terrible the living conditions were, and you want to go visit a place, and watch people bust their asses harder than you thought possible to earn pennies that will probably be extorted out of them? OH YAY. and then we can buy shit tons of conflict diamonds!!!

Yup, I think I'll stick with the picture.

sc4k

United Kingdom5454 Posts

December 17 2010 20:26 GMT

#75

Thanks for reminding me of the greatest game on the dreamcast

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I'll go has a personal cry now, in memory of the 14 other games that were supposed to be in the 16 volume shenmue series

Megaliskuu

United States5123 Posts

December 17 2010 20:33 GMT

#76

This is amazing O_O. I've been watching a bunch of vids on youtube about this since I opened the thread.

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

December 17 2010 20:37 GMT

#77

On December 18 2010 05:23 VeNoM HaZ Skill wrote:
Awesome thread.

But to the people saying that it would have been amazing to visit:
Rampant disease, prostitutes, assassins, drugs, gangs, crime...

I think people meant about visiting the structure, running around freely, at least I meant that.

krazymunky

United States727 Posts

December 17 2010 20:39 GMT

#78

LoL I lived in hk for ten years and had no idea about this.i fail

andrewlt

United States7702 Posts

December 17 2010 20:40 GMT

#79

I'm trying to figure out how they manage to build high rises so close together like that. They must've built the inner buildings first before the outer ones. Otherwise, there would be no way to get the materials and vehicles necessary to lift building supplies high up in the air. But the question is why would anybody build another high rise on the periphery of something like that?

rabidch

United States20289 Posts

December 17 2010 20:48 GMT

#80

holy crap... i wonder how the infrastructure of that place worked, it's amazing to see how people still functioned in that kind of environment