CGND8: Walled City Beats, by KOWLOON 九龍

CGND8: Walled City Beats

by KOWLOON 九龍

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	1.	South Gate Entrance 04:46
	2.	Dentist, School And Kindergarden Alley 03:54
	3.	The Metal Between Ground And 5th Floors 06:38
	4.	3rd Postman Of The Upper Sector 03:18
	5.	City Of Darkness 03:55
	6.	77 Wells 03:12
	7.	Pigeon Racing 03:20
	8.	Opium Room A-6 1F 03:27
	9.	New Territories 03:56
	10.	Heart Of Electricity 03:46
	11.	Lung Chun Road 03:29
	12.	At The Barber 02:08
	13.	Tea Break Building 03:24
	14.	Dimsum Quarter 04:44
	15.	Lawlessness 03:00
	16.	Sunlight At The Courtyard 03:04
	17.	17m² 03:33
	18.	Smell Of Airplains 03:30
	19.	Secret Stairs 02:43
	20.	Rooftop Hoppin 03:40
	21.	Til 1993. 03:32
	22.	Homesick 02:27
	23.	1843 02:38

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"The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong is one of history's great anomalies. It was a pleace over which two governments claimed jurisdiction but with neither actively administering it; anarchy reigned while secret societies presided. Above the maze of dark filthy narrows alleys with open drains hovered high-rise apartment to Hong Kong's building ordinances. Drugs pedlars, addicts, pimps and prostitutes operated openly in this favoured hideout for criminals. Small factories, some supplying food for the rest of the territory, proliferated beyond the prying eye of factory and sanitary inspectors. For many years it did not have any water supply. Dentists and doctors unable to register with the Hong Kong government served the poor while lining their own pockets and upholding their professional dignity. Outsiders were immediately recognized and suspiciously watched. The Kowloon Walled City also known as The City of Darkness, in fact, was a world unto its own.

It has always aroused curiosity, and fear, and few dared venture inside. Since the announcement in January, 1987 of its demolition under the auspices of oth the British and Chinese governments, interest has multiplied. Hardly a day passes now without some group of visitors trooping down the alleys hoping to see this unique physical, legal, historical and social edifice before it is gone forever. But, in a way, the Walled City remains an enigma."

- Elizabeth Sinn 冼玉儀

Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1987. Be the guest of the City Of Darkness with Walled City Beats. Participate the daily life in what might possibly the only city that grew organically out of itself without any architectural structure or guidelines. Kowloon Walled City. Step into a claustrophobic world with no laws. Discover hidden places, long lost feelings, endless narrow alleys guided by sloppy improvised power lines without any daylight deep inside the City Of Darkness. Where population density is almost 120 times greater than today's New York City...

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