What are some historic slums and what were they like?

Japan

>>967542
New york

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>>967542
Kowloon Walled City

Here is a cutaway... it's an interesting piece of Hong Kong's history. Being neglected by the governments of both Britain and China, the slum grew into a horribly packed and self-governed place.

Look into it more online or at your local library. I am far from an expert on it

>>967542
Rome

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The Zone grew in the void left after the destruction of the fortifications of Paris.

>>968761
Actually, it was more like the Qing Dynasty's enclave in British ruled territory (since -technically- Hongky Konk and Kowloon were """"concession"""" so the Chinese were allowed to keep a small fort of soldiers there to keep that fiction up).

But then the Qing collapsed and the fort - now a considerable settlement- pretty much had no official government.

Unofficially however, it had a "council" of all the guys who owned businesses there + criminal heads who met to discuss common issues and sent a guy to pester the british government for shit like drainage, electricity, and so on. It's really an exercise in anarchy.

>>969206
no such thing as anarchy, a power structure always arises, like you said the businessmen and gang leaders made all the decisions

>>969243
Yes but they didn't hold elections and elected a leader among them, there was no "kingpin" nor there was no set date for meetings.

More like
>Uncle Ho, the pipes don't work.
>Fucking shit. In our house?
>No, all the flats.
>Fucking shit, WONG! WONG GET OVER HERE, PIPES DON'T WORK.
>I HEARD MR. KWOK COMPLAINING AN HOUR AGO.
>GET THE FUCKING BOYS TOGETHER.

>>967542
my local city has old jewish quarter, emptied during the war. its really gimicky nowadays, full of places selling falafels and little stars of david. there was even a controversy where a strip club opened in that district, and offered circumcised male strippers on some sort of jewish themed night. turned into a whole incident and the ambassador had to apologize.

>>968743
>>968755

how are japan and new york slums? they're the opposite of slums and well developed.