Kowloon Walled City: The Fort No One Owned (Part 1 of 3)

A diplomatic gap between two empires created the most densely populated place in history. Discover the origins of Kowloon Walled City, from its start as a Qing military fort to a jurisdictional anomaly where thousands lived without official government oversight or building permits. New stories every Tuesday and Friday. Want more on the history of Hong Kong? Listen to "Indelible City" by Louisa Lim, free with an Audible trial: https://link.amazon/B0caFrSxn Support the channel on Patreon:   / toofartoreturn   As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Part 1 of 3: "Kowloon Walled City" Watch the full series:    • Kowloon Walled City: Full Documentary Series   Next: Part 2, Kowloon Walled City: Life Inside the Dragon (Part 2 of 3) -    • Kowloon Walled City: Life Inside the Drago...   CHAPTERS 0:00 The Highest Human Density 0:40 From Salt Outpost to Walled Fort 3:47 The Convention of Peking 7:12 Demolition and the Lost Wall 9:37 The Bureaucracy of the Absurd 12:46 The Fire and Concrete Growth 14:16 Living Under the Flight Path HOW THIS VIDEO WAS MADE Researched and written from the sources listed below. Narration uses a synthetic text-to-speech voice. Some scenes are AI-generated reconstructions made for illustration; they are not historical photographs or footage. Archive photographs are credited below. SOURCES "City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City" by Greg Girard and Ian Lambot, published by Watermark Publications in 1993. "Quality of life in a "high-rise lawless slum": A study of the "Kowloon Walled City"" by Prudence L. K. Lau, Lawrence W. C. Lai and Daniel C. W. Ho, published by Land Use Policy, vol. 76 in 2018. Link: https://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/259448 "Kowloon, la ciudad amurallada que llegó a ser el lugar más poblado del mundo a finales del siglo XX", published by BBC News Mundo in 2023. Link: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c8... "Kowloon Walled City Park: Historical", published by Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Government. Link: https://www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/parks/kwcp... "La vida en el lugar más denso del mundo: recordando la ciudad amurallada de Kowloon" by Wilfred Chan, published by CNN in 2014. Link: https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2014/03/31... "Kowloon Walled City", published by Wikipedia. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon... IMAGE CREDITS Photo: Ian Lambot, 1989, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, resized) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, resized) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: John Thomson, c. 1870, Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (flipped, cropped, resized) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Gary Todd, model at the Hong Kong Museum of History, CC0, via Flickr (cropped, resized) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: unknown author, c. 1920, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, resized) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Malcolm Koo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, resized) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Ian Lambot, 1975, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, resized) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Ozzy Delaney, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, resized) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Roger Price, 1991, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, resized) / cropped to 16:9 Archive images are shown with slow pan and zoom. Licenses: CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC0 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... | CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #documentary #history #truestory