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	Kowloon Walled City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Walled City (known as Kowloon then) was originally a single fort built in the mid-1800s on the site of an earlier 17th century watchpost on the Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong.
		Kowloon Walled City Park, with the remnants of the South Gate in the foreground.
		The yamen and the remnants of the South Gate of Kowloon Walled City are declared monuments of Hong Kong.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City (1162 words)

	Kowloon Walled City: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Kowloon Walled City (九龍城寨, originally known as 九龍寨城) was an interesting anomaly in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world's leading commercial centers) 's colonial history.
		The Walled City (known as Kowloon then) was originally a single fort built in the mid-1800s on the site of an earlier 17th century watchpost on the Kowloon Peninsula (Kowloon Peninsula: the kowloon peninsula, commonly referred to as kowloon, is a peninsula, in the...
		Kowloon City (Kowloon City: kowloon city (; cantonese ipa:; jyutping: gau2 lung4 sing4) is one of the 18 districts...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/kowloon_walled_city (1398 words)

	Kowloon City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kowloon City (九龍城) is an area in New Kowloon of Hong Kong.
		Comparing with the administrative Kowloon City District, the Kowloon City area is vaguely bounded south by Prince Edward Road West and Prince Edward Road East, north with Lo Fu Ngam, east with Kai Tak Nullah and west with Kowloon Tsai.
		In 1982, Hong Kong was divided into 18 administrative districts, and Kowloon City and its neighbouring areas, such as Hung Hom, belong to the Kowloon City District since then.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kowloon_City (164 words)

	TOFU-magazine : kowloon wall city
		Kowloon Walled City, situated next to the old Hong Kong International Airport, was an incredible megablock of urban/architectural configuration occupying an area of approximately 200 by 150 metres.
		In 1860, the Kowloon peninsula and Stonecutters Island came under British sovereignty — the colonists were clearly eager to gain control of the mainland facing the Island as a military buffer zone.
		There was one exception, Chinese officials could remain in the Walled City, as long as it was not inconsistent with the military requirements of the defence of Hong Kong This was of no consequence to the British — until the following year when local peasants rebelled, and attacked colonial traders in the new region.
	www.tofu-magazine.net /newVersion/pages/KWC.html (1240 words)

	Kowloon Walled City Park - History/Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The interior was dominated by the offices of the Commodore of the Dapeng Brigade, and the Kowloon Assistant Military Inspectorate, commonly known as 'Yamen'.
		During the Japanese occupation of 1941-45 the wall was torn down and the stone used to extend the nearby Kai Tak airfield.
		An idea of the large amount of quarried granite so gained is provided by the wall's dimensions: 15 feet wide and 13 feet high for a gross length of 2,200 feet, plus a supplementary wall which ran Great Wall-style from the northern rampart to the top of the hill which formerly overlooked the garrison.
	www.lcsd.gov.hk /parks/kwcp/en/index.php (657 words)

	. : Kowloon Walled City
		Hak Nam, City of Darkness, the old Walled City of Kowloon was finally demolished ten years ago, in 1993, and to the end it retained its seedy magnificence.
		In origin, however, Kowloon City was much the oldest part of Hong Kong, and one of the few areas in the vicinity populated when the British first arrived in 1841 to claim Hong Kong Island and the southern-most tip of the Kowloon Peninsula for their own.
		Under the terms of the lease, however, it was agreed that the small, walled magistrates’ fort to the north of the town would remain Chinese territory until the new colonial administration had been properly established and all the details of land ownership, held within the fort, had been transferred.
	www.arch.columbia.edu /gsap/21536?PHPSESSID=1ae222584d7472999cc8fd2df7d2c2c7 (1006 words)

	crossborder
		Kowloon Walled City became a city within a city where the British had no authority to rule and the Chinese did not care to do so.
		During phase one of the demolition, 8 months before the city was to be demolished in 1992, the authorities stopped all water and electricity from reaching the city - forcing the residents to move out.
		The city’s dentists and doctors had most of their patiens from outside the city, charging them a fraction of what they would pay outside.
	www.ritklara.com /emerging/crossborder.html (514 words)

	KOWLOON VR TOUR - VTHAWAII.COM
		The south-facing Kowloon Walled City commanded an area of 2.7 hectares, with a city wall measuring 210 by 120 metres.
		Kowloon Walled City Park is not the only historic sight in the district.
		Kowloon City is also renowned for its fabulous selection of Southeast Asian cuisine, featuring delicacies from the Chiu Chow region, Shanghai, Beijing, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Vietnam and India.
	www.vthawaii.com /EXTRA/HONGKONG/Kowloon/Kowloon2.html (438 words)

	KVASS OR KWASS - LoveToKnow Article on KVASS OR KWASS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The city developed with great rapidity, and at the outbreak of the Hussite troubles, early in the i4th century, was next to Prague the most important in Bohemia, having become the favorite residence of several of the Bohemian kings.
		In 1420 the emperor Sigismund made the city the base for his unsuccessful attack on the Taborites; Kuttenberg was taken by izka, and after a temporary reconciliation of the warring parties was burned by the imperial troops in 1422, to prevent its falling again into the hands of the Taborites.
		In 1541 the richest mine was hopelessly flooded; in the insurrection of Bohemia against Ferdinand I. the city lost all its privileges; repeated visitations of the plague and the horrors of the Thirty Years' War completed its ruin.
	www.1911ency.org /K/KV/KVASS_OR_KWASS.htm (2657 words)

	Kowloon Walled City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The enclave remained part of Chinese territory despite the tubulent events of the early 20th century that saw the fall of the Qing government, establishment of a Chinese republic and later, the People's Republic of China.
		By the early 1980s, Kowloon Walled City had an estimated population of 35,000 - with a crime rate far below the Hong Kong average, probably because of the notable lack of any real law enforcement.
		Being a lawless land, the city was notorious for its excess of brothels, casinos, opium parlours, cocaine parlours, food courts serving dog meat, and secret factories.
	en.askmore.net /Kowloon_Walled_City.htm (1094 words)

	Kowloon City District Council
		Commercial activities abound in the bustling streets in Kowloon City as well as in the shopping malls of Whampoa Garden and public housing estates within the district, whereas industrial activities are largely confined to the Tokwawan and Hunghom sub-districts.
		Its Kowloon Walled City was one of the earliest developments in the territory.
		The new Kowloon City District Council was established in January 2004.
	www.districtcouncils.gov.hk /klc_d/english/dchighlights.htm (471 words)

	Varsity January 2002 - Milestones
		The remnantsof the South Gate of Kowloon Walled City have been preserved for visitors to the park.
		Kowloon Walled City was built in 1846 as a garrison by the Qing government.
		Therefore the Qing government insisted on sovereignty of the Walled City even though it agreed to lease the New Territories —; that is, all the Kowloon Peninsula south of the Shenzhen River — to Britain in 1896.
	www.com.cuhk.edu.hk /varsity/0201/milestones.htm (366 words)

	parole: walled city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At the end of the 20th century, the city is suffering from a crisis.
		The decay of the classical, walled city into a modern agglomerate was a gradual development, in which virtual, transparent borders replaced physical, visual ones.
		Thus, not only is the essence of the city rehabilitated, but distinction is also conferred on such over-theorised concepts as 'inside' and 'outside', the explicit contrast between the city and its surroundings transforms the city into a 'civitas', the symbol of an urban community with a vivid social and intellectual life.
	parole.aporee.org /work/print.php?words_id=604 (404 words)

	The Hong Kong Report - Photo Impression of Kowloon Walled City Park December 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Park, one of many in Kowloon, was built to for the enjoyment of the people and to enhance the Health and Leasure of the ordinary Hong Kong citizen.
		The Kowloon Walled City Park is located on the former approach to Hong Kong's Famous Kai Tak Airport, on the spot where the Hong Kong slums or Hutong were once located.
		These Walled Cities are the Houses of Clans of Original Citizens of Hong Kong.
	www.drben.net /ChinaReport/HongKong/HongKong-Photographic_Virtual_Tours/Kowloon_Walled_City_Park1.html (423 words)

	Wall Stories -- ThingsAsian Article
		The Kowloon Walled City Park was, after all, some 100 years ago, a respected seat of power, the object of contestation between two warring nations, and a hotbed for vice and crime...
		What lies beneath these protective walls are the foundations of the original South and East Gates, on which the demolished Kowloon Walled City was built by the Qing government in 1847 as a garrison town.
		The original stone plaques bearing the Chinese characters "South Gate" and "Kowloon Walled City", discovered by archaeologists during excavation, are framed for posterity at a dim corner, so are the rather amateurishly-taken photographs documenting the clearing of the shanty town...
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.2133.html (1327 words)

	The world's top kowloon walled city websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 1898 Peking Convention (which handed additional parts of Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years) excluded the Walled City, with a population of roughly 700, and stated that China could continue to keep troops there, so long as they did not interfere with Britain's temporary rule.
		A murder that occurred in Kowloon in 1959 set off a small diplomatic crisis, as the two nations each tried to get the other to claim responsibility for a vast tract of land now virtually ruled by anti-Manchurian Triads (the Hong Kong organized crime syndicate).
		Over time, both the British and Chinese governments found this massive, anarchic city to be a bit much - despite the low crime, if the 'Black Market' ever had a physical location, this would have been it, and needless to say, the sanitary conditions were, well, a bit wanting.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/kowloon_walled_city (983 words)

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		Surrounded now only by walls of political inhibition, the City became the place where they could get their breath back; where they could live as Chinese among other Chinese, untaxed, uncounted and untormented by governments of any kind.
		Only in the late 1970s, after a serious fire (much the most terrifying hazard in the City), were the authorities allowed in with their meters.
		They set up their clinics on the edges of the City and charged their patients a fraction of what they would pay elsewhere.
	www.blurty.com /talkread.bml?journal=artichoke77&itemid=11692 (988 words)

	Kowloon Walled City Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Walled City was constructed between October 1846 to May 1847 with donations of official and local gentries.
		Thus, the issue regarding the jurisdiction of the walled city was left unresolved.
		The Japanese, wishing to extend the airport, demolished the city walls to obtain the necessary stone.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~yoshizo/hk/march/walled/walled.html (526 words)

	Gordon Coale Weblog Entry - 03/22/2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Architecture with a capital A. The Kowloon Walled City was architecture with a lower case a.
		The Kowloon Walled City is what happens when a city is built with no rules.
		Hak Nam, City of Darkness, the old Walled City of Kowloon was an unmistakable presence in the midst of urban Hong Kong.
	www.electricedge.com /greymatter/archives/00000778.htm (274 words)

	COEXISTING
		The roof of the city’s older buildings often served as private courtyards for the surrounding apartments.
		The narrowness slowed the whole city down and since no car could entre, the streets became valuble extra space for the residents, in some places more pleasant than in others.
		A lot of the inhabitants of the Walled City came from very poor places where the hygiene conditions were much worse.
	www.ritklara.com /emerging/coexisting.html (208 words)

	virtual3 // Walled City
		The city had formed to accommodate their needs and changed it's form daily.
		Have you seen it?It should be about the Kowloon walled city.
		However, I can imagine that in 200 years the whole of Hong Kong is one big walled city where nobody walks on the ground or outside.
	www.triptosomewhere.com /virtual3/inside.php?id=88 (289 words)

	Hong Kong : In Kowloon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kowloon Walled City Park--Hong Kong's newest park is perhaps its finest.
		Although it doesn't boast the attractions of the city's other parks, the Kowloon Walled City Park, on Tung Tau Tsuen Road, was designed to re-create the style of a classical Southern Chinese garden, and is the largest such garden outside China.
		Following a special Sino-British agreement and years of lengthy negotiations over new housing for Walled City residents, the enclave was demolished in 1994.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=78&catID=0078032183 (625 words)

	all4all.org \| About the walled city project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They are inspired by the real, historical Kowloon walled city: a place between Hong Kong and China that was included by the walls of one state but belonged to the territory of the other, so it was a place that was in fact outside any statal control.
		It became clear soon that this was much too narrow a focus, that the exchange and development of the knowledge of the emancipative movements cannot simply be called “education”, because it is something very different from what we usually know under this term.
		The idea of walls may sound insulting to some, having in mind the cynical and anachronistic role that borders play in today’s real world.
	www.all4all.org /2004/04/742.shtml (792 words)

	Hong Kong, Kowloon, Kowloon City, Kowloon Walled City Parked
		To the north of Kowloon City is the Kowloon Walled City Park.
		At a later stage, due to historical events such as the occupation by British Army, confrontation between China and Britain or the Japanese occupation, the Walled City became a place that is not governed by the British nor the Chinese.
		In 1993, the Walled City was demolished and the park was opened in 1995.
	www.hong-kong-travel.org /KowloonCity.asp (242 words)

	The LambCutlet Disorganisation » 2005 » March » 02
		Kowloon Walled City’s history also includes the fact it’s legal status meant it was a heaven for squatters and people indulging in illegal activites.
		The old city walls itself had long gone during WWII when the Japanese occupiers used the stone to enlarge the now ex-Kai Tak Airport.
		The Kowloon Walled City Park itself is obviously now literally something completely different and quite a nice little retreat to see some water and greenery, spending just a little over an hour and a half walking about and taking photos.
	lambcutlet.org /blog/2005/03/02 (837 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Kowloon Walled City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Images of The Kowloon Walled City, one of the worst areas in HK before it was demolished!
		I was fortunate enough to go on a tour of the Walled City a year prior to it being demolished.
		Contrary to popular belief the Kowloon Walled City actually had a very low crime rate as it was run by the Triads and petty criminals were intimidated.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=253995 (953 words)

	DiscoverHongKong - Heritage - Declared Monuments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Kowloon Walled City was a garrison town built by the Qing government in 1847 as a military outpost.
		In 1987, it was announced the Walled City would be cleared and replaced with a park.
		The most important discovery was the two stone plaques bearing the characters "South Gate" and "Kowloon Walled City" of the original South Gate.
	202.85.164.103 /eng/heritage/monuments/mo_kln_0006.jhtml (202 words)

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