Book Review: Kowloon's Last the Complete
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.
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.
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