Mall City: Hong Kong’s Dreamworlds of Consumption Edited by Stefan Al With more shopping malls per square kilometre than any other place on Earth, there’s no better place to research the use of retail space than Hong Kong. This was the first book I bought from the Hong Kong University Read more
In order of height from tallest to littlest, Andrew, Abraham, Casper, Charlie, and I were the closest of buddies from our days in high school. We each went our different ways shortly after graduation, but we always kept in touch and gathered twice every year for old times’ sake. Video Read more
The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism By Max Weber This controversial piece of work was written at the turn of the 20th century by German philosopher Max Weber. I had the opportunity to read this text in depth when I studied under the direction of Prof. Joshua Derman, Read more
Cities Without Ground By Adam Frampton, Jonathan Solomon, Clara Wong Between its many contributing authors, one of the core messages I understood from the book was Hong Kong’s lack of a sense of land. Where American and European homeowners would understand that the value of their home was somehow related Read more
Chemnitz represents two things to me; the love of trying out new exotic experiences, and my amateur fascination with the history of architecture. My first time in Chemnitz lasted just a few hours, but was enough to give me a comprehensive overview of the city’s history. I did the trip Read more
I didn’t know how high the sky was until I passed over the Rockies, I didn’t know how large the earth was until I got lost in the plains of Minnesota, I didn’t know how empty the sea was until I knelt in the sand on the Atlantic shore. After Read more
About ten years ago, former US President Barack Obama claimed that women in the US were paid 77 cents on the dollar when compared to men. Soon after, further dissemination of the studies showed that the actual pay gap between the two genders are actually much lower (93 cents on Read more
If you want to fall in love, the 36 questions that lead to love are terrible at doing that. I suspect that the online videos showing people falling in love after answering the questions are only doing it for show. But the questions are a great way to get to Read more
Most of what I express here will be directed towards North America’s path dependency on the private vehicle although some of it will also be relevant to policy incentives in East Asia. As my father always used to tell me: “You have to think in systems, you can’t expect everything Read more
A short distance away from Halle, Wittenberg, and Leipzig where Martin Luther frequently lectured, Eisleben is his famed birthplace and place of death. It’s a good idea to visit these places all in one trip to get a feel of what it was like to live during the 16th century, Read more