It just so happens that I wrote this while listening to this . Two weeks ago, a confluence of things happened. First, I planned and ex...

I found this article on China's urban planning mess courtesy of Alexander Synaptic 's Facebook page, and felt that there was some r...

This past weekend I put together a group outing to A-Cai's, a historic restaurant that is scheduled to be shuttered (and possibly, b...

Now that everyone seems to have forgotten about the Wang family - as I am sure those in power had hoped - this story on the famous A-Tsai (阿...

I just watched this older TED Talk on the catastrophe of "community space" in the USA and couldn't help but think that much o...