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- Title
Self Build and Change: Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong.
- Authors
Lambot, Ian
- Abstract
Despite its dystopian appearance, the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City is fondly remembered by some former residents. Over the half century from 1946, it grew without input from architects or planners, from a squatter camp inside an abandoned military fort to the most densely populated place on earth. The 14-storey amalgam of interlinking buildings housed over 35,000 people, along with factories, shops, schools and all other normal urban provisions. It has much to teach us about bottom-up, community-driven development - as former Hong Kong-based architect Ian Lambot explains.
- Subjects
DEMOLITION; ARCHITECTS; WORLD War II; URBAN planners; KAI Fong Lee
- Publication
Architectural Design, 2017, Vol 87, Issue 5, p122
- ISSN
0003-8504
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ad.2225