Covid-19 and its effect on town planning


Meanwhile, our city centres feature high rise urban slums (such as City One and Selangor Mansion (pic) in the Jalan Masjid India area which both became hotspots of Covid-19 infection).

Covid-19 will bring wide implications to urban society, in terms of its “future-proofing” against future pandemic threats. There is an urgent need to rethink spatial planning, especially settlement planning and the mobility aspects of economic, family and social life.

Throughout human civilisation, populations became increasingly concentrated in certain advantaged locations, which led to housing, commerce of goods and services and transportation all evolving around this pattern.

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