I wish I could live in Kowloon Walled City...
I wish I could live in Kowloon Walled City
live in a wet cardboard box inside a burned-out wooden shack in 8 Mile Detroit for the same aesthetic
Why do you want to live in a environment that the government failed to provide basic necessities too so the people built their own city without any safety or regulations that is under control by the Triad and also has a severe drug problem leading to the people living there die at younger ages and be more depressed
The closest thing we have to Kowloon Walled City now is the Rio Favelas.
Hi Wikipedia.
EA/SEA-punk still exists in Thailand, maybe Indonesia-Philippines too.
completely chaotic urban layout
some weird law causing excessive public wiring
multi-floor buildings
cramped
More Thailand
I'm sure the air was great from all the unregulated steel smelting and processing inside the buildings.
watch Cyberpunk or Alita
excessive public wiring
that's nothing
AFAIK, most of nippon also don't want to dig holes for underground cables either.
SOVL
picrel and I've seen far worse
Yes but Japan has an urban esthetic bar too high for the 'punk' style, the cabling is too organized, reduced and they demolished all buildings in bad conditions for earthquakes too.
I used to visit a family friend who lived there as a child. I found it very peaceful and it mostly was in the same way any ghetto can be peaceful. They had a lot of plants and people playing dominos and people trading clothes and random stuff to each other all day. It was pretty quiet at night. It is weird to me that people see it as this horrible or novel place. It was a normal urban hellhole lol. Actually if you played cyberpunk and walk around outside of vs apartment but fill it with shrubs and less disgusting people it would be halfway there. Sound of airplanes sucked.
It’s like being homeless but you get even less sympathy from strangers.
not wanting to live in Soulful South American slum where gangs of 13 year olds rule illegal settlements in which all services are stolen from government infrastructure and charge the equivalent of 50 dollars for killing people, while under the shadow of megarich multibillionaires who travel from their luxury mansions to their skyscrappers in helicopter
I loved City of God.
They probably have that real Lolita shit there
walls 2thin to keep out the poors IMO.
I wish I had access to a simulation of it to reference for writing a story where part of it takes place there.
South American favelas/villas/barrios are completely different.
A lot of cyberpunk imagery is based off of Kowloon AFAIK, gits blame etc, as one of the most densely populated urban areas
there's still some places in HK where people live in cage apartments and shit in buckets
Pitch an arc set in the Kowloon Walled City for an existing anime/manga.
Sequels/continuations of oneshots accepted.
I lived NEAR a slum like kowloon, minus the tall buildings anyway(max like 3 floors). I remember to go to my friend house I have to travel between gap of 2 buildings to reach a small plaza, my friend's is right at the entrance , walk any further and it would get narrower and darker so I never travelled to deeper area.
Why, do you want to have a gay romance?
I visited Chongqing recently. It's a very weird city. Its most striking feature is that it has levels like floors. It could be called a vertical city. You can be going around for a long time thinking you're on the ground level then you find out you're actually on the 12th level. It's a very interesting and unique experience which I don't think any photos you can find can capture, and my words can't do it justice. There are old, rickety apartments and buildings that have been around for who knows how long and modern skyscrapers and new, shiny buildings and mansions that incorporate traditional Chinese architecture all close together. There are these slums many stories high that have been turned into tourist attractions, and they're connected with the city's levels. As in you can enter the building on the 20th story or something then go down the stairs and exit on the ground floor.
Very interesting. Ty for sharing anon.
hughchongching on instagram has videos of chong ching really interesting city lots of bridges and a lot of stairs and things like leaving floor 9 of a building only to then enter the basement of another building and then go to floor 12 and exit the building onto to a bridge leading to the highway
meant to say hughchongqing
How inclusive is Kowloon?
The fact that it took over a year for the government to finally persuade the people to leave says a lot. No matter how bad KWC was, it's better than living under the state.
But dude, the vibes are immaculate
If you want a Chinese death trap so badly, you can try Chungking Mansions in Hongkong.
Would you say that you are feeling nostalgic for it?
You really don't.
I want to live on a train or a plane that never stops moving, but realistically that'd be terrible.
I was born too early to live Firefly space cowboy explorer shit
Seoul has a similar aesthetic in many places, but less 3rd world
I don't give a shit nigga bring the old HK back youtu.be
also >implying the triads aren't still in control
Anyone remember the jean claud van damme movie that references kowloon?
hughchongqing
journey_of_jacks0n recemtly guided a certain youtuber in his tour of Chongqing.
why?...
youtu.be
not enough floors
While I get that Kowloon Walled City has been deeply romanticized and was a fascinating place that was basically unique, that doesn't mean it was a great place to live. Stories about it don't get into the extensive negatives of living there.