Life under the freeway in Malaysia: community resilience amidst modernization in contemporary Malaysia

He let his mind drift as he stared at the city, half slum, half paradise. How could a place be so ugly and violent, yet beautiful at the same time? The squatter camps in the kampongs off Old Klang Road, which links Kuala Lumpur to the old port of Klang, were places full of stories of resilience anc difficulty borne of simple day-to-day living.