New insights from the 2025 Urban Readiness Report reveal that city leaders worldwide are grappling with a complex, two-front battle. On one hand is the immediate pressure to deliver essential services for rapidly swelling urban populations and on the other, the critical need to invest in long-term resilience against environmental and economic shocks.
This global dilemma – the perpetual conflict between the urgent and the important – is not new but for Malaysia, it is intensified by a severe constraint on capital, leading to a constant trade-off that risks sacrificing the future for the urgency of today.
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