Edited by co-curators Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu, Instant Culture is a new book exploring the issues raised in the last Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in 2009

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The hardback tome includes a debate on the future of the much-discussed West Kowloon Cultural District

Pictured here is a detail from the West Kowloon Walled City exhibit Photograph by Alvin Ku

Construction of the Biennale's Main Pavilion, which was designed by Shigeru Ban Architects Photograph by Jiaxin Chum

A page from Instant Culture depicting the legendary Kowloon Walled City, home of Hong Kong's social outcasts until it was demolished in 1993. The future of this former 'forbidden city' is now the subject of hot debate

The Stage exhibit, which celebrates bamboo construction Photograph by Calvin Tsoi

'Instant Culture' contains contributions and essays from an impressive array of specialists, including local and international architects, designers and artists such as Rem Koolhaas, Brett Steele, Xu Bing and Shigeru Ban, whose essay is pictured in this spread Photograph Aaron Chow

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