On a hill in the middle of Taipei, near the Tamsui River, there is a cluster of buildings so densely packed that it resembles a real-life version of the urban sprawl in Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle. Known as Treasure Hill, the cluster was once to be an illegal shantytown that housed over 200 military families in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, it is a community filled with art and artists. Because the buildings were so haphazardly constructed, it was met with a lot of opposition by the local city…
