Journal

Field notes from walks and meeting rooms

Dense rooftops in a Vietnamese city

2026-03-12

Reading a Hanoi rooftop before you add a sector

What to photograph on Old Quarter and Ba Dinh roofs so the expansion study does not rest on a landlord sketch alone.

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City buildings along a busy avenue

2026-01-20

When a cabinet register and the street disagree

Three kinds of mismatch we keep seeing between asset lists and what stands on the pavement in Hoan Kiem and Hai Ba Trung.

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Traffic moving through a Southeast Asian city

2025-11-04

Tet load and the highway out of Hanoi

Why a capacity review for the days around Tet should start with bus stations and rest stops, not only with the site nearest the ring road.

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People reviewing printed documents at a table

2025-08-18

Why we still bind a paper atlas for capex committees

A wall-size print and a numbered plate survive a projector failure in a provincial meeting room. Here is how we caption those plates.

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