Kowloon n°1
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A series of posts with photos that remind me of the Kowloon Walled City.
Asia in general, and China and Japan in particular, exerted an incredible amount of influence on the visual aesthetics of the cyberpunk genre. The iconography, the neon lights, the ideograms, the architecture; it is all an inseparable part of cyberpunk's atmosphere.
Being defined as "high tech, low life" cyberpunk could not have escaped the influence of places existing outside of the law, crime-ridden and full of low-lifes.
Kowloon Walled City, 九龍城寨, shows how the two above ingredients would look like. The City existed within Hong Kong between 1898 and 1987, and was ultimately demolished in 1994.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
The City is also the setting of the last game in the Shadowrun Returns trilogy by Harebrained Schemes studio.