Annette Koh
Public space, the right to the city, and civic engagement. How can we improve equity and access through participatory urbanism? Ph.D. student in Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Former resident of Seoul & San Francisco.
Recent Tweets
@spamandkimchi
Posts I Like
-
-
HAWAIIAN CONSCIENCISM with Linda Tuhiwai Smith on May 2, 2013 at UH Manoa. She spoke on activism, feminism, culture, difference,...
-
o
After 666 comments, a friend of mine was kicked off Metafilter. That was ten years ago. He told me his old screennames over drinks a...
-
The Cola Road (2013)
Image of Singapore from Twisted Sifter
How does one articulate what it means to belong to a place, or to have a claim to it, when the way of thought on which such a question finds it basis in the first place is daily undermined or treated as obsolete? Economic pragmatism dominates Singaporean life on macro and micro levels. Change to the environment is nearly always implemented for economic reasons. The pragmatic approach discourages emotional attachment to the city as a lived place. Permanence becomes irrelevant next to the cause of further urban redevelopment.What are the implications for collective memory? The speed of change in the city ensures the loss of places, in themselves and in the people’s remembrance of them.
Wei-wei Yao, “City as Theatre: Singapore, State of Distraction” in Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes
