Tag: resilience

Merdeka 118
Placemaking | Urban |

Merdeka 118 Community Grants Programme: Releasing The Untapped Potential Of Downtown KL

Over the past decade, downtown Kuala Lumpur has been a particular focus of Think City’s work in Kuala Lumpur. As Think City Programme Director Matt Benson reminded The Citymaker in a recent podcast, Building A New Creative And Cultural District for KL, it’s not only the heritage core of Kuala Lumpur, containing a wealth of cultural assets, it’s also the iconic area in which Malaysia’s independence was declared. ...

MSME Day
Community | COVID-19 |

Automatic For The People: Myths And MSME Day 2021

On 27th June we celebrate the UN’s Micro, Small and Medium sized Enterprises (MSME) Day. According to data provided by the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), MSMEs make up over 90% of all firms and account, on average, for 70% of total employment and 50% of GDP. They are the heart of our economies and our communities, providing employment and much needed services. ...

Placemaking | Urban |

Penang Bay Ideas: An Exciting Social Win For SDG Zones

The Penang State Government recently announced the top prize winners of the Penang Bay International Ideas Competition. Launched in August 2020, the competition was designed to invite innovative ideas from around the world to transform the Penang Bay area into a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) compliant city zone and economic area. ...

On The Trail Of Data
Business | Reflexive City |

On The Trail Of Data: Better Cities and Reflexive Analysis

Last week we talked to Aishwariya Krishna Kumar about Think City’s role in establishing NGOhub’s Homeless Services Registry. This week we speak to Joel Goh, a senior Analyst at Think City, about the growing role of realtime and near-realtime data in helping to shape urban policies and strategies and to provide instant feedback to make those policies more reflexive and adaptable. ...

Homeless Vaccine
COVID-19 | Reflexive City |

Homelessness And The Vaccine Push

With Malaysia’s Covid-19 vaccination scheme due to start in March, Matt and Maya look at some of difficulties that other countries have faced in their efforts to vaccinate the homeless. We speak to Aishwariya Krishna Kumar from Think’s City’s social resilience team about Think City’s programmes for people experiencing homelessness, its homelessness Registry Week Report and its involvement in NGOhub’s Homeless Services Registry. ...

Period Poverty
Community | Urban |

Period Poverty: The Real Pain of Menstruation

Tam Xueh Wei

Period poverty is defined as a menstruating person’s lack of access to safe and hygienic use of sanitary menstrual goods. This issue then leads to problems such as missing out on school, being exposed to a health risk, and facing shame within their communitie...

Placemaking | Urban |

The Reflex: Resilience In The Age Of Pandemia

For the past few weeks we’ve been focusing on sustainable urbanisation as outlined in the World Cities Report 2020, launched by UN-Habitat at the end of October. The Citymaker spoke to one of the report’s early contributors, Think City’s Programme Director, Dr Matt Benson, about the urgent need for cities to be more reflexive and to cope with the pandemics and shocks that are expected in the future. ...