Give Me a Town Square, or Give Me a Death
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
October 2012 EDITORIAL
One thing that strikes me when I travel from city to city nowadays is that the ones I enjoy most and have the fondest memories of are simply those that boast some huge and central public space where the local population – the citizens literally – and visitors congregate in order to step outside the fast pace of the streets or the transport system.This is where they “get away”, to use a glib phrase. But to be sure, this so-called...
Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.
