Category Archives: Observation

#3 The Informal as Infrastructure

How could Japan have been bankrupt for a decade, but still look outwardly buzzing? This has been a question that has bugged me for at least a decade now. That is, until I started my Masters Degree in World Cities

#3 The Informal as Infrastructure

How could Japan have been bankrupt for a decade, but still look outwardly buzzing? This has been a question that has bugged me for at least a decade now. That is, until I started my Masters Degree in World Cities

#2 The Peripheral becomes Central

Objects at the periphery have a knack of coming into sharp focus. Take Occupy Wall Street. However you see it – whether you consider the 1% or the 99% the periphery – they have both been placed sharply and inevitably

#2 The Peripheral becomes Central

Objects at the periphery have a knack of coming into sharp focus. Take Occupy Wall Street. However you see it – whether you consider the 1% or the 99% the periphery – they have both been placed sharply and inevitably

#1 The Uncertain is Certain

Fact: Someone always profits from a crisis. Not to sound tasteless and insensitive, but the truth is that when the tsunami hit Aceh in 2006, somebody was doing business selling tents and other humanitarian supplies to the Red Cross and

#1 The Uncertain is Certain

Fact: Someone always profits from a crisis. Not to sound tasteless and insensitive, but the truth is that when the tsunami hit Aceh in 2006, somebody was doing business selling tents and other humanitarian supplies to the Red Cross and