{"id":2285,"date":"2025-09-05T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macdolphins.org\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:11:12","slug":"watch-a-timelapse-of-the-notorious-kowloon-walled-city-built-to-scale-in-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.macdolphins.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/watch-a-timelapse-of-the-notorious-kowloon-walled-city-built-to-scale-in-minecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a Timelapse of the Notorious Kowloon Walled City Built to Scale in Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kowloon Walled City<\/a>, considered the densest settlement on the planet, was demolished in the mid-1990s. At its height in the ’80s, it was home to around 33,000 people\u2014a government survey provided some idea of the local population\u2014but estimates are often closer to 50,000. And that’s all within an overall footprint of 2.6 hectares, or just shy of about 6.5 acres. It’s an area smaller than five American football fields or about 2.5 New York City blocks.<\/p>\n

A bit of an infrastructural and legal accident, Kowloon Walled City started as a Song Dynasty military outpost, then became a Qing dynasty fort in 1810. It sat within the boundaries of Kowloon City, Hong Kong, which was eventually controlled by the British after 1842’s Treaty of Nanking. But the British never really did much with the location, and for decades, only a few hundred people lived there. In 1940, only a yamen\u2014a central government office\u2014a school, and a single house stood in what would eventually transform into a city of monumental and overbearing proportions.<\/p>\n

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