Trash or treasure? Where does history lie?

Trash or treasure:
Where does history lie?

A visual journal exploring our discussions around the question, 'How should we design in Heritage sites?'

AUTHOR
Tahreem Noor

Session two
27 October, 2021

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Pictured here in 1987, Kalwoon was a densely packed city housing 3300 people – ‘119 times dense as New York today’, the city fallen city resembled the UK’s back to back housing scheme.

(The Independent, 2017)

(Routley, 2017)

Riddled with crime, the city was eventually set for demolition in the 1990’s – full timeline below.

Kowloon today:

(Nast, n.d)

Model

Buried History, unearthed from the soil

References:

ArchDaily. (2016). Here’s What Western Accounts of the Kowloon Walled City Don’t Tell You. [online] Available at: https://www.archdaily.com/800698/heres-what-western-accounts-of-the-kowloon-walled-city-dont-tell-you.

Nast, C. (n.d.). Kowloon Walled City Park Hong Kong – Park Review. [online] Condé Nast Traveler. Available at: https://www.cntraveler.com/activities/hong-kong/kowloon-walled-city-park.

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Routley, N. (2017). This Fascinating City Within Hong Kong Was Lawless For Decades. [online] Visual Capitalist. Available at: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/kowloon-walled-city/.

The Independent. (2017). A renegade photographer got inside this lawless Hong Kong community that was 119 times as dense as New York City. [online] Available at: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/hong-kong-kowloon-walled-city-greg-girade-renegade-photographer-new-york-city-a7845111.html.