Kowloon Walled Fractal City

“Kowloon Walled Fractal City”, design by: J. F. Bautista
Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong. William Gibson character describes it best, in 1997′s Idoru: There was a place near an airport, Kowloon, when Hong Kong wasn’t China, but there had been a mistake, a long time ago, and that place, very small, many people, it still belonged to China. So there was no law there. An outlaw place. And more and more people crowded in; they built it up, higher. No rules, just building, just people living. Police wouldn’t go there. Drugs and whores and gambling. But…

Unbuilt
2013

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Hong Kong, China

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