Miles Lewis Oration 2024 – Khoo Salma Nasution (Penang, Malaysia)

Japanese Room, Level 4, Glyn Davis Building (133), Parkville Campus

Consuming The Porous City : George Town, Penang Khoo Salma Nasution The term ‘porous city’, introduced by Walter Benjamin and his collaborator Asja Lacis (credited more to the latter) in their 1925 essay on Naples, serves as an analytical lens in contemporary writings on architecture and urbanism. This essay applies the concept of porosity to
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