Liveability Lies in Public Spaces being Properly Planned and Maintained
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
January 2020EDITORIAL
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In a rural setting, public spaces lie between households. These are spaces shared with neighbours. And as you walk out of the village centre, either up the hill, into the fields or down to the riverbank or the coast, Nature’s presence begins to dominate and you are then but a guest in a wider world as yet little touched by persistent human interference. Where tar roads connect village to village to town to city allowing for hasty vehicles to zoom...
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is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.