Five Foot Way is a small independent magazine about street-level life in Kuala Lumpur. The name is the local term for the covered walkway that runs in front of old shophouses — five feet of shade between the road and the shop, where the city actually happens.
What we publish
Practical, checkable pieces a person can use the same day: what a plate of food should cost, which card opens which gate, what a public holiday marks and how to take part in it, how a length of cloth is tied. 24 guides so far — 5 in street food, 5 in getting around, 5 in public space, 5 in festivals, 4 in cloth & craft. We write about the peninsula we can walk to, and we would rather publish one accurate page than five vague ones.
How we work
Figures come from operators, markets and published rules, and every page says where the number is likely to drift. Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, credited to their authors on the page and listed together on the photo credits page. Corrections are welcome and made in place; write to [email protected].
About this domain
This address had two earlier lives. It was a Kuala Lumpur community blog, whose 21 surviving posts we keep in the archive; and it carried 52 guest and sponsored articles, which stay in their own catalogue. Five Foot Way is not a continuation of the group that ran the blog, did not organise any event described in the archive, and has no connection to the people who did. We keep those pages because erasing what was published here would be worse than labelling it.