Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Rooftop slums in Kowloon, Hong Kong, 2009. Rooftop slum (Chinese: 天台屋) or penthouse slum generally refers to illegal housing on the rooftops of apartment buildings. In Hong Kong, some people are unable to afford traditional apartments and are forced to wait years for affordable public housing.
The 2006 Hong Kong horror film Re-cycle features a decrepit, nightmarish version of the walled city, complete with tortured souls from which the protagonist must flee. [80] The 2016 TVB martial arts drama A Fist Within Four Walls takes place in the triad-ridden walled city in the early 1960s. [ 81 ]
A fire at Shek Kip Mei in December 1953 resulted in over 50,000 slum-dwellers being left homeless. [55] Rooftop slums then developed, when people began to live illegally on the roofs of urban buildings. [56] In addition, the Kowloon Walled City became an area for squatters, housing up to 50,000 people in Hong Kong. [57] Street dwellers in Mumbai
Located in Sham Shui Po, the space is also used as an artist-run squat as it occupies a re-purposed Hong Kong rooftop slum that is turned into a theatre with free admission policy. [3] [4] Since 2013, the back alley space has been occupied, reclaimed as a 24-hour open-air public art museum, and renamed as Thy Lane Museum. [5] [6]
Slums in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Pavement dwellers in Japan. Squatting in Asia; Squatting in Asia occurs when land or buildings are occupied without formal right of tenure. . Following the end of World War II and the collapse of many colonial regimes, there was a huge net migration from rural to urban areas across Asia, which resulted in people living in informal settleme
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Kowloon Walled City Park is a park in Kowloon City, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Kowloon Walled City had been a military stronghold since the 15th century due to its coastal location and was a slum. Under an agreement between the Government of Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China, the Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the 1990s. Some ...
This page was last edited on 10 November 2023, at 11:36 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.