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Incredible claustrophobic footage from inside the Kowloon Walled City

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The fortress-like Kowloon Walled City of Hong Kong was demolished in the early 1990s, but a German documentary crew braved the sprawl in 1989 and captured amazing footage from inside this sunlight-less patchwork metropolis.

https://gizmodo.com/the-walled-city-where-sunlight-couldnt-reach-5512888

Check out more footage from this astounding arcology here, here, and here.

[Spotted on Laughing Squid. Top photo via Doobybrain.]

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