From Garrisoned District to Chinese Town: Land and Boundaries at the Kowloon Walled City, 1898-1912

[摘要] The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong became a named entity around 1810 and was demolished in 1994, but its architecture had long been unclassified. Not until the years just prior to its demolition did this dense slum of informal multi-story buildings receive sustained attention from architects and architectural historians. However, the architectural nature of the six-acre area predated its late-20th-century state. After its founding as a Qing military outpost, it underwent various structural additions and renovations, including an imperial Chinese administrative complex known as a yamen (衙門) and an outer wall, after which the Walled City was named.

[学科分类] 内科医学

[关键词] Kowloon Walled City;architecture;land;landscape;Hong Kong;colonial;imperial;Qing dynasty;British empire