Before it was demolished, Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City was a marvel of urban life. Its dark, vibrant imagery has influenced pop culture in ways you don’t even realize.
Kowloon Walled City was once the densest city block in the world, with 33,000 people and 1,000 businesses squeezed into tiny shacks stacked 14 stories high. Photographer Greg Girard, who lived in Hong Kong in the mid-1980s, stumbled on the development one night when he was shooting pictures of the nearby airport.
