| | Kowloon's
Last the Complete,
by Shintaro Nakamura.
The discovery of a couple books
on a recent trip to Japan at Kinokuniya
Bookstore renewed and furthered my interest and obsession
with Kowloon Walled
City, a lawless place of extremely high density demolished
in 1993. Although completely in Japanese, this book is an
invaluable history of the Walled City through beautiful
black and white photographs (pdf sample
pages). The book documents its evacuation and demolition,
evident in the barricades surrounding the "city"
and the lack of human presence and activity. It's like a
last-minute appreciation of a place borne of political and
social circumstances in a world that will probably never
see its equal. |
