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City of Darkness: Life In Kowloon Walled City

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Girard and Lambot spent four years exploring the notorious Walled City of Kowloon (Hong Kong), before it's final clearance in 1992. With over 320 photographs, 32 extended interviews, and essays on the City's history and character, this reprint is not only an informative glimpse of a now vanished landmark but a sensitive and penetrating portrait of a unique community.

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Author:	Ian Lambot
Paperback:	216 pages
Publisher:	Watermark
Publication Date:	June 06, 1999
Language:	English
ISBN:	1873200137
Package Length:	10.6 inches
Package Width:	10.4 inches
Package Height:	0.9 inches
Package Weight:	2.85 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 11 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 5.0

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33 of 33 found the following review helpful:

Amazing book Mar 04, 2006 By Kgar "Kgar_Fiction"
Everyone who I have ever shown this book to has had a deep reaction to it. I wouldn't handicap this book by calling it a photography book alone, although the photos are very powerful and prominent, but the text deserves recognition as well. Plenty of personal stories of how people made this decaying city their home. Both epic and intimate. A testament of the human animal's ability to adapt and thrive. Thank god the authors got in to Kowloon before its destruction to create this book.

Also, as a side note: Any artist wanting reference material for decaying urban sprawl, look no further. This book makes for great city or science fiction reference, with unbelievable details (electrical boxes, pipes, hallways, stairwells, etc...)

26 of 27 found the following review helpful:

City of Darkness--Life in Kowloon Walled City Sep 03, 2005 By A. Lau
I was born in Hong Kong and lived in the Walled City for 2 years with my mother when I was 10. Love the photos, history, and facts about the walled city, bring back lots of memories.

22 of 23 found the following review helpful:

Content 5 stars; binding - update Sep 08, 2007 By J. Lamarca
Update - 5 stars: I wrote a review before and gave a 2-star rating because I had a quality issue with this book - the binding on my copy came unglued after looking through it once or twice. Well, the author, Greg Girard, actually tracked me down on facebook and kindly offered to send a replacement free of charge. This replacement copy has held up beautifully for the past year or so as it has been looked through numerous times by houseguests. The first copy I had must have just been flawed. I tried to change my rating to a 5-star but it doesn't seem to want to let me.

As I said in my original review, the photos are stunning, the text and interviews fascinating, and the quality of the paper excellent.

6 of 6 found the following review helpful:

important book Mar 19, 2007 By Lars Rolfsted Mortensen
the book offers great insight in the extreme circumstances under which people lived in the kowloon walled city. superb photografic material covering a wide aspect of the city and relevant text. a must for people interested in urban vernacular architecture.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Mindblowing story and amazing pictures. Jul 05, 2007 By C. Hasenkopf
This book tells a story of a place most people have never heard of and no longer exists, but was the most densely populated place in the entire world at one point. It does it by well-written text, interviews with people that lived in this one-of-a-kind place, and priceless pictures. Google "The walled city of Kowloon", read up on it, and you won't be able to resist getting this book.

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