KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 — Apart from the wrath of mother nature, which was one of the reasons behind the recent flash floods in Kuala Lumpur, urban city planning expert Shuhana Shamsuddin said the design of the city failed to protect it from drowning.

The advocate for urban design said it is time that the government started to seriously take concerted efforts to prevent city centres from future flash floods, rather than allowing the current haphazard development that does not take the disaster into account.