It was called "The City of Darkness" — a place so densely constructed that light itself did not penetrate the narrow footpaths between its high rises. For several decades in the second half of the ...

A New York Times article asking how many people Manhattan could hold notes that “packing Manhattan as tightly as Kowloon Walled City, river to river, would mean jamming in 65 million people ...

Kowloon Walled City, or “the city of darkness” as it was known in Cantonese, sprawled across seven acres, was home to 35,000 people (some say 50,000), packed into a few apartment blocks and ...

The world's most densely populated city was demolished over 30 years ago. Kowloon Walled City was home to 35,000 residents that were packed into a territory of 26,000 square metres.

It was called the Kowloon Walled City. With a population of 33,000 squeezed into a tiny lot, the city at its peak was 119 times as dense as present-day New York City.

Kowloon Walled City was the logical if not inevitable form for a slum to take in Hong Kong, a reach-for-the-sky approach on a limited 2.6 hectare site, in a city where it is not uncommon to build ...

The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was once the most densely populated place on Earth, a teeming hive of interlinking high-rises that few dared to enter but 33,000 people called home. Explore ...

It’s been 20 years (to the month) since Kowloon Walled City was demolished, but amazingly, it remains one of the most dense structures ever built. As many as 33,000 people crammed into the seven ...