1.Cities without Plans
The Walled City, Hong Kong:
A 14-storey vertical village topped with a sea of television aerials, the Walled City was an ungoverned enclave in Hong Kong that until its demolition in 1993 represented one particular vision of what the unplanned city might become.
Once upon a time (well, up until 1993), there existed a city called Hak Nam. Within its tangled alleys could be found shops and factories, dental clinics and pharmacies, schools, abattoirs, drug dens and brothels. Within its 14 storeys lived 35,000 people, and its buildings were packed so tightly that they formed a continuous mass. The ‘streets’ of this city ...
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