Field Notes & essays.
Short dispatches from the room, longer reflections from the network. An editorial record of how citymaking is being practised across Asia-Pacific.
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A placemaker's guide to Singapore: seven districts to walk before The Art of Citymaking
Marina Bay, Jurong Lake District, Kampong Gelam, Tiong Bahru, Punggol Digital District and the Bras Basah arts belt — a working guide to the Singapore districts where placemaking is most legible, and the questions worth asking when you walk them.
A room of one hundred and fifty: The Citymaking Circle, previewed
Notes from the Founding Preview of The Citymaking Circle at The Nanson, Singapore — one week before the inaugural festival at the Glass Dome.
Financing Regenerative Citymaking
Eight working principles on the capital structure regeneration actually requires — patient seed, stewardship instruments, honest value capture, and anti-displacement as a financing covenant rather than a wish.
Creative placemaking: a working definition for the next decade
Creative placemaking is the deliberate use of arts and culture to shape a place — not decorate it. A working note on what the term names, what it doesn't, and how it cuts across Adaptive Neighbourhoods, Urban Software, and Placemaking & Legacy.
Adaptive Neighbourhoods: notes on regeneration
Seven working principles from inside the Adaptive Neighbourhoods theme — stewardship, editable rules, and anti-displacement as design constraint.
The Conscious Cities Index, v1
Three pillars, twelve indicators, one equation — a first reading of twelve cities against a framework that asks a different question of urban success.
From the Drawing Room: notes from the KL salon
Four lenses, three rounds, one question — what would it take for KL to be a city for all? A field record from a Friday morning at Yap Ah Shak House.
Being versus doing: unlocking new dimensions of liveability
If liveability 1.0 measured the environment in service of human doing, liveability 2.0 must be concerned with the felt impact of that environment on human being — the conscious city.
districtBE: before the doing, being
On the edge of Jaipur, a living district inside Dhun is rehearsing a slower civilisation — ecology, community and attention held on a single ground.
Field: a commonplace book
An invitation to a slow scroll of poems, haiku, koans and photographs — the long-tail sensibility that sits behind the Conscious Cities Index.