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The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City
It accreted, it wasn't planned. They just built things on top of other things.
ctdonath
on Jan 10, 2020
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13 stories seems too much to "accrete". Architectural or economic, it's a startling achievement of anarchy.
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The book suggests a construction contractor would approach the owners of a smaller building, and in return for replacing it with a much larger one, they would own the lower X floors.
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