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????☠️Join the Knowledge Pirates membership / @studio_pirates ☠ Curious? Just subscribe and like and we'll plunder for you! ???? Cyberpunk 2077, Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and other near-future dystopian works have a visual code that depicts a chaotically developed city and the lives of the poor. But... did you know that this was created based on a real place? When it was a British colony, there was a lawless zone in the middle of Hong Kong that no country had sovereignty over. The so-called Kowloon Walled City! How was that concrete maze created? References: ▶ Life and Death in the Kowloon Walled City - By Kwak Han-young - Pusan National University Press #KowloonWalledCity #HongKong #England #China