Culture | Darkness and life
Before its demolition in 1994 the settlement in Hong Kong was the most densely populated place in the world
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By C.C. | HONG KONG
TO OUTSIDERS IT was a den of vice, run by gangsters and drug-dealers. To immigrants it was a refuge. To business-owners it was a place to avoid pesky regulations. By the time it was demolished in 1994 the Kowloon Walled City, a settlement on two hectares of Hong Kong, was home to 35,000 people.
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