Heritage kept right
By Julia Tan, Yap Jo-Yee
August 2014 FEATURE
When it comes to heritage conservation, strictly maintaining an old building’s infrastructure is not enough. One must ensure that the essence, or the unseen heritage, remains preserved.On July 7, 2008 George Town was listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site. Since then, things in the city have became busier, louder, artsier and, to the chagrin of some, more “Disney-fied”.Evidently, the tourism industry was the first to benefit from all this. Curious tourists swarm George Town’s little alleys and lanes looking...
Julia Tan
is a former editor of Penang Monthly. She remembers her time with the magazine with great fondness.
Yap Jo-Yee
is a research analyst at Penang Institute whose interests range from development issues to behavioural economics. Her latest goal is to use ggplot2 without Google’s help.
