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The Kowloon Walled City is big slum in outskirts of Hong Kong.
This slum was called the Casbah of the East,Asian gamble den.
And notorious for its excess of brothels, casinos, opium dens, cocaine parlours...

However,
The Kowloon Walled City was not normal slum.
The slum was composed of a lot of bank building.
Unplanned construction make it complex slum labyrinth...




The Kowloon Walled city was originally military fortress.
When Britain made Hong Kong British colony,
the Kowloon became the enclave like buffer zone.
After WW­¶,
A lot of refugee flowed in the city.
So in 1990
it had 50,000 inhabitants on 0.026 km²,
making it one of the most densely populated urban areas on Earth.

This slum don't exest now.
In 1993,
China government torn down the walled city
and make it changed to the park.

When i lived in Hong Kong,
The Kowloon Walled City had not yet broken down.
I feel strange.