Our lifestyles may be killing us but our spatial planning is too

If we get our planning right, perhaps the next generation will not have to dodge tricycles, hawkers and open gutters just to stay alive.

A city that places a fried-food stall at every corner and a fruit stall at none has, in effect, written a prescription, and it is not a healthy one.

Any time one decides to engage in any form of outdoor exercise, one has to contend with narrow streets bursting at their seams with shops, hawkers, errant motorbikes and, lately, tricycles without side mirrors or any form of safety or warning mechanism.