VGH… why would they demolish such a prime SLVM?
>>18610486she's so beautiful bros...
>>18610486Do you guys think that if zoning didn't exist most cities would look like Kowloon? I wonder what the average type of slum would be for cities in different situations, or would they all be unique to eachother? Slums are fascinating, people are fascinating.
>>18610667I guess urban planning in general is a better way to put it.
>>18610486Imagine the smell
>>18610667Nah, Kowloon happened because of zoning, sort of. If they didn't have to stick to that little square because of weird historic rules, they would've built out into the open space. You didn't have this kind of density even in the most overcrowded cities in the past, even viccy era London wasn't this crazy
>>18610486Kowloon Walled city is a misnomer. The city isn't walled, the city itself is the wall. Anyway, it was kino and sovlful.
>>18611509I guess maybe 19th New York tenements got the closest to that density outside of Hong Kong. But that was also a situation where space was limited. Informal settlements in Brazil, for example, are really extense, iirc.
>>18610667Kowloon was the result of a bunch of homeless vagrants deciding to squat in some abandoned fort so probably not
>>18611515>$5 USD per monthI'd definitely consider it
>>18611566Some very skillful homeless. Then again I had the rare privilege of seeing a squatter settlement be built and destroyed when I was a kid.
>>18611515just something about it
People call anarcho-capitalism a meme ideology, but tens of thousands voluntarily moved into KWC, a tiny block with virtually no resources, and millions fled the USSR, the largest communist state in the world.
>>18610486>From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Walled City was effectively controlled by local triads, becoming a haven for prostitution, gambling, and drug trafficking. All within 7 acres, eh? Chinks are really something else.
Ah, a walkable 15 minute city :)
>>18613240KWC was parasitic of the very unlibertarian colonial possesion it was built in the middle of, though.>>18613248Life finds a way. It always does. Fordlandia, for example, had a parasite community just out of the city limits to provide all those things.
>>18611515anon, I...
>>18610486https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-d0-3buow>relevant
Don't worry, OP. There's a new one apparently.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB2iwIWvx50
>>18610486>SLVMwhat
>>18610667>Do you guys think that if zoning didn't exist most cities would look like KowloonIf you wanna look what an nearly entirely free for all city looks like, go to Brazil.
>>18614146it became a misnomer when the wall was taken down
something about it seems nostalgic, seems like it would have been fun to grow up there
>>18614802But modern cities are shit tho hmmm?
>>18614866Modern cities are shit because they're full of blacks and mestizos.
>>18614920and indians
VGH the noodle factory dark alleys of Kowloon....home
>>18614627Favelas are policed and regulated, thoughever.
>>18610486It was sovlfull but also a total shithole. If it wasn’t demolished, it would keep growing until the structure eventually collapsed in on itself and killed like 5000 people and would need to be demolished anyway.
>>18615429Iirc they had a hard cap on growth because of the airport.
>>18614141>KWC was parasitic of the very unlibertarian colonial possesion it was built in the middle of, though.So parasitic its host didn't give a shit
>>18615872In the wild, there are parasites that castrate their host without it giving a shit. Likewise many humans who have had intestinal parasites weren't too negatively affected because of it and continued living. Anyway, it was parasitic because it was absolutely dependent of the entity it was inside of, controled by organized crime tiedto that external entity, and provided mostly counterfeit and illegal services to it. Kind of like the city of Hong Kong itself, in a sense.
>>18610667Technology, geography, and political/social inequality also affect it, but largely yes
>>18610486Because modernists hate soul.
>>18610486It was becoming a hotspot for t*urists
