Dean Wong’s new book, “Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown” (Chin Music Press) … centers on Seattle but includes images from other cities, including San Francisco, New York and Vancouver, British Columbia. Juxtaposing photographs with short, anecdotal essays, the book serves as a powerful corrective to decades of one-dimensional and blinkered reporting on neighborhoods generally represented in the cultural mainstream as exotic, insular or irrelevant, as places to order a quick meal or marvel at the colorful rituals of the Chinese New Year.
Article and images here.
I owe my advocacy voice in cycling matters and sustainable communities back in time, to my first exposure and volunteer work with some incredible Toronto Chinese-Canadian community advocates in race relations, social services, social policy, and immigrant services in the 1980’s. This is all before cycling.
So too bad, that his book doesn’t mention Toronto’s huge contribution to Chinese-Canadian history, advocacy on equity matters, etc. It has been significant..
Some public art in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto in and near 3 Chinatown cores.
https://cyclewriteblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/more-than-just-dragons-art-on-chinese-canadian-experience/
Here’s another good article from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-percent-of-manhattans-buildings-could-not-be-built-today.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
I want to have a debate about zoning – do we need it?