Will there be more Kowloon like cities within the future? Will anarchy thrive?
Will there be more Kowloon like cities within the future? Will anarchy thrive?
Liam Green
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Hunter Rivera
No, no
Isaiah Turner
Well, there are a few small anarchistic communities here and there. Christiania comes to mind. And there are some micronations which are ruled by self proclaimed leaders or kings who larp as sovereign states. But Kowloon had a special status because neither China nor the Brits could decide if it's their territory or something like that.
Grayson Hall
Imagine the smell?
Henry Myers
It's literally an insect nest.
Lucas Robinson
Of course. We're gonna need housing structures like in Dredd to house the new Americans after the Democrats open the floodgates.
Liam Brooks
I've watched a docu and they had surprisingly good dental and other medical services, doctors who lost their license for some reason moved there to practice. And it was easy to get drugs etc.
Dominic Reyes
What a fattie. Do burgers really all look like that?
Owen Evans
I think its possible. You can already see police being disrespected in some major cities and their mayors not backing them up. Soon they won't even bother patrolling some areas and drugs will flow freely
Leo Fisher
Most people who are in walmart do
Zachary Diaz
>Christiania
comparing Christiania to Kowloon just proves what a low-IQ twat you are
Wyatt King
Top fucking kek
Ryan Cooper
We have Kreuzberg right in the middle of Berlin. Not really a no go zone, but police rarely go there because they instantly get attacked by leftists and anarchists.
Both were anarchist communities tolerated by the state, so they are similar. Other than that they were pretty different, so what?
Carter Adams
If you mean will all cities look like shitholes because they are full of Africans then yes, yes it will.
Henry Morris
Jaxson Edwards
Jonathan Cook
Gabriel Long
Christiania is an amusement park for tourists, there is nothing "anarchical" about it. The 1980s are over, smoking weed in the public is not "anarchical".
Landon Stewart
Connor Davis
Wyatt Ross
Jaxon Thomas
Fat neckbeards exist all around the world. Don't tell me this brony ain't pushing 300lbs.
Jack Watson
Aaron Adams
Their lifestyle gets tolerated by the city because they attract tourists, yeah.
Landon Morris
not gonna lie, if you had one of those rooftop apartments with some natural light it would be incredibly comfy
Caleb Scott
mirin that hot sauce collection
Ethan Wilson
Kowloon city is probably the best argument against the road predicament ancaps face.
Dominic Ross
> fleshlight in a plushie
typical /jp/ poster
Anthony Walker
exactly. The idea and the structure aren't awful at all.
All it needs is a little decoration and everyone will love it.
Joshua King
Kowloon city, but it's actually the inside of a mined out asteroid that has turned into a lawless hub between Mars and Jupiter. Since the travel time is so long, and the routes are hard to map out- you go out to the asteroid belt for a long time, or if you need to get away. This leads to low policing due to no centralized authority and two types of groups in the asteroid belt- the miners and the residents. The residents are the famers and scavengers and the people producing the food and oxygen. Very frequently overpopulation is a problem... but the ability for illegal activity draws in money from the outside. to keep the power on.
The inability for people to leave, or expand, leads to massive crowding in the limited space. Parts of the city get locked down if a plague breaks out. A lot of the money that the city gets come from manually processing the ore that the mining ships bring in. Poor, uneducated, orphans wander the sub-spaces of the asteroid- scrounging for food. There is no way to produce artifical gravity, leading to a population with significantly less muscle mass- which in some cases leads to earlier cardiac arrest, the upside being that less calories are consumed per person. Eventually the problem may get large enough that the Martiands decide to clean up the asteroid field.But then that's either mass deportation to Jupiter, or mass genocide.
Jackson Fisher
if population growth isn't controlled then a lot more KWC's will rise. The first world has the right idea with low birth rates, India and China will be a serious issue (2.5 billion people between the two and China axed one child policy), and the third world wouldn't be a problem if they are quarantined by stopping all Immigration from the third world into the first world.
Zachary Rodriguez
that sounds sick but i dont think you can establish an atmosphere on an asteroid
Caleb Green
>anarchy
>shithole
checks out
David Bennett
sauce on that book?
Nolan Foster
Liam Peterson
City of Darkness
Charles Cruz
Inside the asteroid- duh.
Blake Murphy
thanks user
Christopher Lopez
It's sad that they destroyed it.
Owen Butler
maybe used to be military base so its already decked out on oxygen and air
Isaac Foster
what's sad is the communists getting Hong Kong from Britain, and now trying to fully implement authoritarian control. Fuck China. Fuck China forever.
Nathaniel Allen
Ah, shit- yeah that's a good idea. Old military base moved into by scavengers after it was abandoned years ago. possibly an ever expanding space station where they slap together more and more mis-matching hubs to the central station. Giving it that jank look.
OH! Better yet, the oxygen system could be powered by a nuclear core- so oxygen isn't a problem, but possibly like the way the kowloon city people had to use umbrellas for the leaks- People are wearing leaded clothing to keep out trace radiation leaks.
Blake Cooper
I believe the word you’re looking for is “hive”, as in “hive city” or “hive world”.
For reals though, this place had the highest human population density of any place on Earth for a while. Not sure how the comfort level was for individuals though.
I feel the tiny house / downsizing movement wants to squeeze people into spaces like this.
Robert White
We have a couple of slums that are similar but the buildings are not so tall.
Noah Brooks
More likely scenario for a new Kowloon Walled City is definitely an Asian place. Or Russia. But most likely you would have to have another place that was not sure who owned it, or was a contested zone or no go zone. Like after a war between some of the SEA countries or the two Chinas or whatever- there was a DMZ zone between a city split in half by the two forces- like a Berlin but with the middle being owned by no one. So peope get stuck there and don't have the credentials so can't go into either city while people from either city can go into that area but not the other city- making it an ideal spot for black market and espianoge. Maybe a new fight between Singapore and Malaysia could cause a zone like this.
Thomas Barnes
interesting pics
Benjamin Powell
Looks fucking comfy desu
Julian Cooper
Looks like living conditions are generally horrible but must've been equally as exciting. I know it's not usually subjectively perceived as excitement when it comes to surviving but I feel something is lost in the spirit, living these safe, domestic and mundane lives.
Leo Bennett
No, it will be like the pic related because people will homestead their kids and live with their local communities like a normal society is supposed to be. And the technology will be used to help you instead of enslave you.
Luke Harris
Kowloon is what mega cities will be towards the 2050's. World governments have already done studies suggesting it's the trajectory were on. Law will be nearly impossible to uphold in them. It's going to be a dirty shit encrusted reality.
Jonathan Robinson
Other than your ankle monitoring device because you're an nigger on parole, how does technology enslave you?
Henry Hughes
There is a game in development where you at as a cat wandering a place like this, it looks pretty nice but it’s still early on.
Kek is that the battlefield 3 mascot on his shirt?
Tyler Collins
I dont know. Is this pic from a vidya?
Ryder Cooper
That looks comfy.
Brandon Jackson
It really wasn't. Tiny living spaces, many peple were slaving themselves away in sweatshops. There was no police control, but they had mobsters ruling the city. But it was good for dissidents, for example, because they were outside of the reach of the government.