Voice In The Crowd - Penang Monthly

Water management: Selangor can borrow buckets from Penang

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REPORTS of the intense water battle in Selangor have featured in the mainstream media throughout 2009. Most of these speak of tensions arising between the Selan...

Accommodating heritage

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The rear of five terrace houses in Lebuh Clarke. The re-orientation towards the laneway will benefit from the enlarged open space that the additional set back...

George Town as an engine of growth

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UNTIL as late as the 1990s, cities were largely associated with pollution and congestion. Worse, they were seen as crucibles of moral decay and crime. Those w...

Remember the city status of George Town

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Daniel LeeACCORDING TO the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, there are 12 cities in Malaysia. They are Alor Setar, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Ja...

Replanning Malaysia’s town planning

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An apartment in Paya Terubong.THE TANJUNG BUNGAH Residents’ Association in Penang has been campaigning against development on hill slopes in the vic...

Butterworth remains the Ugly Duckling

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Surely, Butterworth is worth more than what it is getting.About 25 years ago, I gave a talk to a youth organisation there about the future of the town. The...

Curitiba - an ideal city of buses

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Dylan PassmoreLIKE MOST CITIES, George Town has traffic problems. This is illogical as the city has less people today than say, 40 years ago. The populati...

No liveable city without good coastal access

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Penangites are a lucky lot. Besides luxuriant hills, a city centre worthy of being classed a Unesco World Heritage Site and endless tasty street foods, they get...

Let’s Do What’s Needed To Make Penang Clean And Green

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A playground in Youth Park.The state government has launched a Cleaner Greener Penang Initiative. It is part of the vision of turning Penang into an &ldqu...

Improving Penang’s wet markets

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DESPITE THE GROWING popularity of air-conditioned and generally clean shopping malls, wet markets still exist in Penang. Not only that, they are still popular m...

The State Should Repaint All Low Cost Flats

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IT IS WELCOMING NEWS indeed that the Penang state government will be paying 80% of the cost of repainting low cost and low-medium cost flats. The remaining 20%...

Clarifying The Role of Politicians in Development Control

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RECENTLY, residents of Taman Desaria on Penang Island went to the press to complain that the developer of a housing project that was under appeal in the Appeals...