Fun With Population

The Number Of People That Can Actually Fit In Manhattan

That estimate is based on the area with the highest density ever measured, Kowloon Walled City, an ungoverned settlement in Hong Kong demolished in 1994. O'Leary writes that the district, originally a Chinese military fort, was about the size of five

Fun With Population Density

A New York Times article asking how many people Manhattan could hold notes that "packing Manhattan as tightly as Kowloon Walled City, river to river, would mean jamming in 65 million people." I think in a lot of ways it's more illuminating to think

Attack the System- KOWLOON WALLED CITYPARK

Image of Kowloon Walled City Park located in | (WikiCommons). (WikiCommons). At its peak, Kowloon had a population density of 3300000 people per square mile. Occupying every inch of hundreds of mid-rise buildings