If Studio Ghibli ever made an Assassin’s Creed movie..
Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into
the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was
one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth.  Being
slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of
350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a
population density of 5 million people per square mile.  To put
those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the
entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the
US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744.  The area
was also largely ungoverned and unregulated.  Factories,
apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and
almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the
structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings
were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as
needed without a central authority of any kind.  Within the
structure, natural ligh