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How the Kowloon Walled City Worked

March 12, 2026·41 min·4-min readconversationalculture
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The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was once the most densely populated place on Earth, a lawless, self-organized urban anomaly that housed 50,000 people in a space smaller than three football fields, with no government oversight, rampant triads, unlicensed dentists, and buildings leanin

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