Two cities, two approachesBoth KL and Singapore have historic, low-rise commercial neighbourhoods beside modern high-rise business districts. Public housing, hawker centres, markets and shops occupy the same developments, allowing a finance executive working nearby and an elderly public-housing resident to eat at the same hawker centre. If KL wants to stop becoming a collection of luxury enclaves surrounded by neglected inner-city neighborhoods, we need to rethink what good infrastructure means. Housing must be treated as public infrastructure. We do not need to copy Singapore’s public housing system wholesale.