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Imagine, if you will, a city of eternal night. A place so intensely crowded that sunlight never penetrates its alleyways. Overhead, wires dangle from the ceilings. Neon signs fizz in doorways. All around you, 33,000 people are crammed into self-built apartments barely 10m square, while overhead great airships rumble through sky. Is this a vision from the future? The setting, perhaps, for some dystopian sci-fi novel?
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Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Morris M.
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris
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Source/Further reading:
Concise history of the Walled City: [ Ссылка ]
(some history and accounts of a happier side): [ Ссылка ]
Interesting documentary by the Wall Street Journal: [ Ссылка ]
WSJ Interactive: [ Ссылка ]
BBC footage from inside the Walled City at the time (1980) (good footage, but reportage focused on the negatives): [ Ссылка ]
Average US bedroom size: [ Ссылка ].
