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A Sinuous Path Through the Slum

A Sinuous Path Through the Slum

There’s no way one can miss the presence of slum neighbourhoods in Bangkok. Urban poverty gets in your face, regardless where you’re travelling in the congested City of Angels. Despite its overbearing pre ...

Communities, Landscapes Shaped by Apathy

Communities, Landscapes Shaped by Apathy

Home Urban settlements, with their self-built structures of mismatched wood, cheap cement and rusted zinc. They’re vulnerable to rain and flood, and now, the dreaded cold. Maze Neighbourhoods, their alleys fill ...

We are suffering here

We are suffering here

Street art, unknown artist, in a Chow Kit alley. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2017   ...

Through the back alleys

Through the back alleys

In Thai, an alley is called trok (ตรอก). It is most definitely narrow, well-used by pedestrians and riders on motorcycles or bicycles. Leave the major streets, move away from the tall buildings a ...

The back lanes offer much wisdom

The back lanes offer much wisdom

Artist: unknown Location: In an alley, China Town, Bangkok The back lanes offer much wisdom, flashes of insights, though we carelessly discard them. ...