Kuala Lumpur or Singapore: Which is South-east Asia's metropolis?

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These are enormous buildings, some of the tallest in the world.

It’s not so much one coherent metropolis like Singapore as a series of interconnected towns and neighbourhoods. Something like Los Angeles with areas like Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam and Putrajaya all forming part of a broader agglomeration.And at the heart of this increasingly impressive capital sits Petaling Street – Kuala Lumpur’s old China Town – which I think now stands as one the trendiest neighbourhoods in Asia if not the world.

The LRT now zooms over falafel trucks manned by Syrians. And unlike Singapore there’s a dash of urban grit and edge. As an analogy I think Kuala Lumpur has long had the potential to play the role of a giant Brooklyn to Singapore’s sanitised Manhattan. This doesn’t mean one city is better than the other; it just means the two Malayan metropolises are on very different journeys.

 

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