Kowloon Walled City — Interstitiality & The Makeshift City

Sarah Tan
9 min readFeb 15, 2022

The case of the makeshift city.

Kowloon Walled City in 1987; Photo by Greg Girard

The absence of the state, as well as the paucity of basic needs required for a modest life within the urban sprawl, are put forward by many as the catalysers of makeshift urbanism (Pithouse, 2006; Tonkiss, 2013; Ferguson, 2014; Vasudevan, 2015). Innovative do-it-yourself solutions and illegal movements like squatting have arisen…

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Sarah Tan
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Geography graduate from the National University of Singapore. Passionate about storytelling, films and environmental justice.