Why do sports in public spaces keep sparking complaints, and what does it say about how we coexist in a dense city?

Pickleball complaints have sparked heated reactions in Singapore, but they are part of a much bigger pattern.

In this episode, we use pickleball as a starting point to explore why sports like football, basketball, and cycling keep running into conflict in public spaces. We unpack the frustrations around noise, safety, space, and inconvenience, and ask whether these tensions reflect intolerance, poor design, or the realities of dense urban living.

Rather than choosing sides, we look for nuance and possible ways forward, and ask what coexistence in shared spaces should really look like.