Yu-Han Huang (he/him/his) is Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Toronto. His ongoing dissertation project focuses on the transitioning urban landscape and housing modernity in Cold War-era Taiwan and South Korea. By focusing on the utilization of concrete and other building materials in housing and public construction projects, Yu-Han attempts to explore how the concretization of the built environment resonated with the region’s political, social and cultural transition from the Japanese colonial rule to a postwar order under the influence of the USA.