URBAN PLANNERS SHOULD CONSIDER ALL NEEDS OF COMMUNITIES, SAYS PROF AND FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR

"The traditional top-down and data-driven process gives more consideration to helping businesses, the powerful and the well-to-do, he said. Little thought is accorded to individuals' ability to function within an area or a community's capacity to change space according to its needs."

Featuring Nihau Perera - Ball State University News

STILLS TAKEN BY LATE HISTORIAN DATING FROM 1965 TO 1995 COLLECTED IN BOOK

"A collection of 14,500 images charting the transformation of Singapore has been largely unseen by the general public for up to half a century. The slides, dating from 1965 to 1995 and taken by the late architectural historian Lee Kip Lin, capture memories such as the city centre's inter-connected five- foot-ways, which were designed to shade pedestrians from the tropical weather, as mandated by the 1822 colonial town plan." 

Featuring Chee Kien Lai - Singapore Straits Times

SANDĒSA POEMS ACROSS THE PALK STRAITS

"This essay focuses on Sri Lanka’s medieval period when competing urban centres and territorial politics thrived in the region. It proposes to reconstruct a lost architectural heritage through a literary genre of Sandesa Kavyas (message poems), which capture the island’s urban geography prior to its destruction by European colonizers."

Featuring Anoma Piers - Thuppahi's Blog

Mural of forest birds at Kotte Raja Maha Viharaya (Image © Anoma Pieris)