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Kuala Lumpur trip report: 2023
Jul 25, 2023
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Kuala Lumpur trip report: 2023

The KL city skyline continues to bulk up. Merdeka 118 (2nd tallest building in the world), the second-tallest building in KL, and more 300m+ buildings that look small in comparison.

James Clark
James Clark
Urban PlanningUrban Planning
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Fix Penang Island instead of making new islands
May 23, 2023
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Fix Penang Island instead of making new islands

The supposed green utopia of the Penang South Islands project will do nothing to fix the current urban problems of the island of Penang

James Clark
James Clark
Trip ReportsTrip Reports
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Penang construction update (2023 edition)
Apr 04, 2023
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Penang construction update (2023 edition)

Trip report for my visit to Penang in March 2023. New hotels questionably close to the old town, an endangered historic cinema, and land reclamation mania.

James Clark
James Clark
Trip ReportsTrip Reports
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Langkawi trip report
Mar 20, 2023
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Langkawi trip report

A big tower comes to Cenang Beach, an inappropriate Dubai-like development, and yet another mediocre urban development that Malaysia does so well

James Clark
James Clark
Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur
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Thoughts on metro systems on a visa run to KL
Oct 17, 2022
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Thoughts on metro systems on a visa run to KL

Dispatches from Southeast Asia: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Thoughts on metro systems in Southeast Asia, and my mission of railway expansion in ASEAN.

James Clark
James Clark
Transport and urban development in Southeast Asia.

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