Part of my childhood memories includes growing up in a neighbourhood where it flooded often. Some nights, we would be woken up by thunderstorms in the middle of the night - just to find that water had already flooded our living room downstairs. Furniture and some of our things would be floating in the dank-smelling, murky water.
Read MoreFifteen months later, the story is now about to go out to the world. It has been a truly humbling experience to learn about my aunt’s life and the struggles she faces, and the philosophy of life that she holds onto in order to get by each day.
Read MoreThe imagined and constructed modernity today still does not have a place for everyone's narrative to emerge equally - and perhaps this is a perennial issue (or an unsympathetic riddle) that urbanists will have to grapple with for yet another century to come.
Read MoreOne of the Penang Urbanites post-screening discussion was about the deterioration of public housing at places like People's Court at Cintra Street and UDA flats in Tg Tokong. Looking forward to digging deeper into this paper and do a case study on it.
Read MoreTo say that the LSE campus is an impressive balance between the old and the new is an understatement. I'm continuously wowed by how the university nestled seamlessly in the heart of London, occupying and taking shape of the old Edwardian buildings; and also in sleek and modern building like this one here.
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