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Where the Five-Foot Way Ends: The Making of Malaysia’s Everywhere Cities
Where the Five-Foot Way Ends: The Making of Malaysia’s Everywhere Cities
Where the Five-Foot Way Ends: The Making of Malaysia’s Everywhere Cities

Where the Five-Foot Way Ends: The Making of Malaysia’s Everywhere Cities

by Pereka Bandar
$20.50 - $20.50
$20.50
$20.50 - $20.50
$20.50

Dr Shuhana Shamsuddin, Syukri Bashri
Paperback
9786299299400

 

The Making of Malaysia’s Everywhere Cities

 

What happens when a city still functions, but no longer feels like home?

 

Malaysia’s cities are growing faster, higher and farther. Yet many are becoming harder to walk, easier to forget and increasingly difficult to tell apart.

 

Where the Five-Foot Way Ends asks how this happened. Through the kaki lima, serambi, padang, pasar, waterfront and everyday street, it explores how identity emerges from the relationships between buildings, climate, culture and daily life.

 

This is neither a rejection of progress nor a retreat into nostalgia. It is a call to build cities that are coherent, humane and unmistakably Malaysian.

 

Once you learn to read a city this way, you may never see your own streets quite the same again.