July 2024 - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

Bandar Cassia: PDC’s First Smart-Eco City

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IN LEADING PENANG’S industrialisation, Penang Development Corporation (PDC) went beyond job creation and Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) to transforming rural...

The Faded and the Fallen

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Words and photos by Jennifer de Souza.

Fort Cornwallis: A Laboratory for Research and Training in Traditional Construction

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ONE OF MY passions from young is visiting urban areas that have their architectural heritage within their cultural and traditional identities preserved. I am al...

Anatomy of the Penang Shophouse

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MIXED DEVELOPMENTS AND integrated communities are a trend today among property developers. But long before the shiny brochures promoting these new home concepts...

Imagine a George Town Welcoming of Pedestrians

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IT WAS A fine morning when my metro train arrived at the iconic Flinders Street station. The weather had started to get a bit chilly as we entered the winter se...

Curating the City: Public Spaces and the Framing of Urban Architecture

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THE KEY DIFFERENCE that I observe when visiting a thriving city and a striving one is in the manifest gap in ambition and maintenance between private places and...

Fortress Island

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