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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

This is just a question: By just how much can I plausibly increase Hong Kong's population before it becomes hideously intolerable? I'm thinking far more of HK manages to resemble the walled city, thus allowing for far more people to somehow manage to crowd themselves into the small peninsula. The POD is the signing of the lease of Lantau Island in 1898. You can for your purposes, assume that the mainland Chinese will deliver as much power and water as the city needs, no matter what the population.
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