Kowloon Walled City remains one of the most fascinating urban anomalies in human history. Once the most densely populated spot on Earth, this "City of Darkness" (Hak Nam) was a lawless, self-governing enclave in British Hong Kong that reached its peak just before its demolition in 1993.
Between 1987 and 1992, Girard and Lambot conducted a massive documentary project, interviewing over 30 residents and taking hundreds of photographs to capture the city’s complex internal reality. City of Darkness: Life In Kowloon Walled City - Amazon.com
The definitive record of this vanished world is the book by photographers Greg Girard and Ian Lambot. Published in 1993, the work captures the final years of a community that lived in a 6.4-acre maze of 350 interconnected buildings. A Legacy in Ink: The 1993 Masterpiece
The Vertical Labyrinth: Exploring Life in Kowloon Walled City (1993)