How Singapore Solved High-Rise Child Falls

When your front door opens onto a balcony 150 feet up, baby gates won't save you. In Hong Kong and Singapore, where 90% of the population lives in towers, child falls from high-rises aren't treated as inevitable tragedy—they're treated as a solved engineering problem. This episode explores the surprisingly cheap, boring mechanical fixes that cut window fall incidents by 60% in Singapore, from $15 window restrictors to vertical balcony railings that eliminate footholds. We dig into why these solutions haven't been imported by cities building upward worldwide, and what the gap between where families actually live and what safety infrastructure assumes says about the future of urban childproofing.