Planting Seeds of The Future in Balik Pulau
By Koay Su Lyn
October 2012 FEATURE
A shift in thinking is being introduced in Balik Pulau – let the urban and the rural merge. But how realistic is it to improve quality of life this way? But one should also ponder the opposite question: Does “realism” take us anywhere?“The 21st century witnessed the beginning of the end of the age of industrialisation, driven by the forces of capitalism,” said Prof Tay Kheng Soon at the Muafakat@Balik Pulau, Great Lecture Series on August 27. The big idea...
Koay Su Lyn
reads and writes of the past to make sense of the present. She is a research analyst in the History and Heritage Programme of Penang Institute.
