This chapter continues to follow these Transmission Towers south and westwards. It takes us along the edges of Bukit Gasing, past Tasik Taman Jaya, and across Sungai Penchala. Following these power lines inform us of the powers that de-line-ates the boundaries of...
This chapter centres around (un)control(ability). Power lines move underground as we move into the city, and become harder to trace. If the previous essays touch on visible interventions to manage and control Humans and Nature, this chapter reads non-intervention (or...
We move Southwards to the wealthy suburb of Bangsar. Property prices skyrocket, yet vacant lands abound. Economic theory predicts that in an efficient economy, Price increases with diminishing Supply or increasing Demand. If there is still supply of undeveloped lands,...
We begin at the development frontier of Mont Kiara and Segambut. I use the example of the “Last Green Lung” in Bukit Kiara to make the opening argument of this collection: there is no such thing as Pristine Nature in urban-biodiversity. The assumption of Pristine...
1. Make observations at different times Many animals are nocturnal. One difference between average users and more advanced users during this bioblitz was their difference in timing. While average users took more observations in the daytime, advanced users collected...