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aesthe urbana: urban aesthetics 2026-03 • Singapore

Letters from Julian — no. 23

Dear friends, It is wonderful that you are here. Your being here is enough. I am writing to you from Singapore, the city I was born and raised in. The sky is a bright, pure azure, accented with wisps of airy-white. A flash-storm of thick rain has just eased, and great Yellow Flame Trees standing…

thoughts from the last 8 weeks

from the weeks of 16 & 23 February, 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 March & 6 April 2026 Live and let flow~ * Surely none are so mad as those who are content to live unprepared to die. —J. C. Ryle * Trees are essentially modular & scalable Regenerative Units. Perhaps we don’t need…

To love is to pay attention.

a short story. On a hot and sultry afternoon, such as today’s, Dylan sat snugly in his lounge chair while his daughter played nearby. She had just turned 5. The sounds of her playing excitedly with her toys drifted through the hallway while Dylan read the day’s news. “Papa!!!”  Dylan’s daughter had come up to…

Letters from Julian — no. 23

Dear friends, I am afraid. The violence in the Persian Gulf weighs heavy on my mind. Likewise, the threat of Super-intelligent A.I. emerging from the computational arms race seems to cast the future in a deep black. Oh, and have I mentioned the eco-climate collapse that is steadily precipitating all around us? Friends, I am…

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