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Re:The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City by pram on Friday January 10, 2020 @07:47AM (#22010564)
It accreted, it wasn't planned. They just built things on top of other things.
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Re:The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City by ctdonath on Friday January 10, 2020 @08:12AM (#22010672)
13 stories seems too much to "accrete". Architectural or economic, it's a startling achievement of anarchy.
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Re:The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City by Symbiote on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:25PM (#22015722)
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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