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A Rare Cross-Section Illustration: Infamous Happenings of Kowloon Walled City
The rare panorama peers into the compact neighborhood, glimpsing narrow dance halls and entire factories tucked inside cramped quarters.
All images courtesy of Greg Jensen With only a small pocket of community space at the center, Kowloon quickly morphed into a labyrinth of shops, services, and apartments connected by narrow stairs and passageways through the buildings. For a now out-of-print book titled Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide, artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of the urban phenomenon to preserve its memory. The massive panorama peers into the compact neighborhood, glimpsing narrow dance halls, laundry dangling from balconies, and entire factories tucked inside cramped quarters.
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