《Walled Haven》An open world action-adventure set in the Walled City, a dystopian metropolis where Kung Fu decides all.
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Collections: The Lonely City, Part I: The Ideal City
This week and next, we’re going to look at an issue not of battles, but of settings: pre-modern cities – particularly the trope of the city, town or castle set out all alone in the midd…
A renegade photographer got inside this lawless Hong Kong community that was 119 times as dense as New York City
We can't wrap our heads around how crowded Kowloon Walled City was.
Safe Haven by Kirill Semenovich | Verse
*Safe Haven* is a video-essay series that develops themes first introduced in *The Old Man*. Built from fragments of memory and sensation, it assembles a recurring state, moments kept and revisited. The work considers a sustained relationship with time and the idea of eternity. It offers quiet indications of that presence and brief instances of living alongside it. The process is incremental and reconstructive: layer by layer, each surface opens to another space. Each opens onto a further interior, leaving room to pause and reflect without closure.
Tepito: A Neighborhood Governs Itself
A dispatch from Mexico City's legendary barrio reveals how true innovation—from sound-system message networks to black-market tech adaptation—happens far beyond Silicon Valley. Filmmaker and technologist Violeta Ayala explores how self-governance, resistance, and raw intensity shape the future of technology and human connection.
Invisible Cities — an atlas
A three.js atlas of the fifty-five cities Marco Polo describes to Kublai Khan in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
Samurai Unicorn
An action horror game with retro-graphics, set in the sprawling megacity of Sydney3.
Weekend Long Read: Two Takes on China’s $14 Billion Micro-Drama Machine
From tourist sites in Xi’an to algorithm-driven studios in Zhengzhou, the boom has turned short-form storytelling into a full-scale industry in both cities
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction
Unusual and often breathtaking, the genre is relatively unknown in the West.
textcamp!
The lofty ambition of Textcamp is to create text-based adventure games that can be enjoyed by everyone, everywhere.
Caduceus City
The appearance of a thoroughly protocolized environment is, almost, the perfect cover for dark practices.
