We can't wrap our heads around how crowded Kowloon Walled City was.
Welcome | Historical Photographs of Hong Kong
Developed by the Hong Kong History Centre and Special Collections at the University of Bristol, Historical Photographs of Hong Kong offers a rich visual history of Hong Kong, featuring images that span from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1980s. These capture both the urban landscapes of central districts and the lives of residents and visitors there, and its rural worlds.
Walled Haven
《Walled Haven》An open world action-adventure set in the Walled City, a dystopian metropolis where Kung Fu decides all.
Metropolis divided. - Kenna Wong Ghaill
They spoke the same language but could not understand each other. Featured [in the Art Theatre of Long Beach and City Fabrick's Designing Resistance film week]...
Metropolis Divided - Kenna Wong Ghaill
They spoke the same language but could not understand each other. Featured [in the Art Theatre of Long Beach and City Fabrick's Designing Resistance film week]...
Computational Public Space
Knight Media Forum 2026
Communities are not fungible
There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured
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.
We’ve launched an open access platform, Historical Photographs of Hong Kong!
New resource alert! We’ve launched an open access platform, Historical Photographs of Hong Kong. We’ll be bringing online increasing numbers of digitised slides, prints and negatives donated to the Hong Kong Collections in the University of Bristol Library
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has fenced off a “Democracy Wall” bulletin board that has been left largely empty for years as it converts it into a digital display. In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/08/18/university-of-hong…
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has fenced off a “Democracy Wall” bulletin board that has been left largely empty for years as it converts it into a digital display. In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/08/18/university-of-hong…
Finally got a nice pic of this building in Chinatown. It's a masterpiece #vintagetile
This is a really good point re: the lesbian bar story. Yeah, I'm sure the Globe reporters and their friends don't mask, but lots of folks in Boston, ESPECIALLY queer folks, mask pretty consistently. Like I work at a college and I see young folks in masks CONSTANTLY. It's pretty normalized here.
Lex McMenamin (they/them)
like, hella people in boston mask! what the fuck was this story framing! i really dont know man
