First, we have a city with the same density of New Orleans, followed by Austin, Chicago, Singapore, Manhattan, Manila, the Dharavi slum, and finally the Kowloon Walled City.
When the Austro-American explorer Joseph Rock passed through the Hengduan Mountains in 1929, for example, he observed " a conglomeration of tall leaning towers" near an old trading outpost called Jiulong.
Hong Kong's average price for a square foot of office space is around 30% higher than London’s West End at second place, followed by Beijing’s Finance Street, Hong Kong’s Kowloon and Beijing’s Central Business District.