City of Darkness:Life in Kowloon Walled City First Edition Hardcover 1993 Rare!

Description: City of Darkness:Life in Kowloon Walled City First Edition Hardcover 1993 Rare! 1st edition hardcover with dust jacket. The book is in very good condition, the dust jacket has light shelf wear and has fading to the spine otherwise it is good. The book itself is in wonderful condition with only very light shelf wear. This is a rare first edition and is most exhaustive document of the now destroyed walled city. It would make a wonderful edition to any collection. Kowloon was destroyed in 1993. It no longer exists. No real maps were ever made of the place and the most complete record of it exists in these pages. It's as close as you can get to visiting the city without somehow going back in time. What is Kowloon Walled City? It was 6.5 acre piece of property where regulation was non-existant and the population built and built and built until it was a solid block of a building fourteen stories high with absolutely no planning or design. Everything went on within its walls and it was a fully functioning city outside of Hong Kong. Sort of a city state, sort of a country, sort of an anarchist commune, and completely unlike anything built before or since. Girard and Lambot spent four years exploring the notorious Walled City of Kowloon (Hong Kong), before its final clearance in 1992 and subsequent demolition in 1993. With over 320 photographs, 32 extended interviews, and essays on the City's history and character, this is not only an informative glimpse of a now vanished landmark but a sensitive and penetrating portrait of a unique community.

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