Urban planning: the urgent needs to redevelop ex-landfill sites as public parks in Malaysia

As the center of human habitation, the city’s growing in tandem with the increase of urban population dan urban sprawl’s. The increase in urban population has created a variety of effects on space and environment. The urban space limitations urged people especially urban society to utilize their e...

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Main Authors: Mazifah Simis, Azahan Awang, Kadir Arifin
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Language:English
Published: Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
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spelling ukm-109462017-11-13T09:04:38Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10946/ Urban planning: the urgent needs to redevelop ex-landfill sites as public parks in Malaysia Mazifah Simis, Azahan Awang, Kadir Arifin, As the center of human habitation, the city’s growing in tandem with the increase of urban population dan urban sprawl’s. The increase in urban population has created a variety of effects on space and environment. The urban space limitations urged people especially urban society to utilize their existing space as best as possible and looking at the potential to reused the contaminated natural resources. In the other hand, the urban sprawl has sparked a conflict between the settlement and the brownfill area; especially the ex-landfill site. The existence of 147 ex-landfill sites areas in the vicinity of urban settlement requires an action to restructuring of the urban planning in Malaysia. Ex-landfill sites which is synonymous with the negative impact on the environment and public perception must be redevelop immediately. Development needs of the ex-landfill site in the context of development in Malaysia are articulated in the National Urban Policy and the National Landscape Policy. Redevelopment of the ex-landfill is not only said to be able to mitigate with the environment problems, but also could improve the number of urban spaces and the urban economy. Hence, this paper argues the need for ex-landfill sites to be redeveloped as a public park or open spaces. Therefore, the planning standard of 2 hectares of open spaces per 1,000 urban populations could be achieved. The argument on the needs of redevelopment ex-landfill site as open space or Public Park will also be supported with literature data and field studies that show the effect of increasing well-being of the urban society based as the impact of the redevelopment of ex-landfill site as public park. Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10946/1/IMAN-2016-04SI2-05.pdf Mazifah Simis, and Azahan Awang, and Kadir Arifin, (2016) Urban planning: the urgent needs to redevelop ex-landfill sites as public parks in Malaysia. Jurnal Antarabangsa Alam dan Tamadun Melayu (Iman), 4 (SI) (2). pp. 45-52. ISSN 2289-1706 http://www.ukm.my/iman/en/volume-4-special-issue-no-2/
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description As the center of human habitation, the city’s growing in tandem with the increase of urban population dan urban sprawl’s. The increase in urban population has created a variety of effects on space and environment. The urban space limitations urged people especially urban society to utilize their existing space as best as possible and looking at the potential to reused the contaminated natural resources. In the other hand, the urban sprawl has sparked a conflict between the settlement and the brownfill area; especially the ex-landfill site. The existence of 147 ex-landfill sites areas in the vicinity of urban settlement requires an action to restructuring of the urban planning in Malaysia. Ex-landfill sites which is synonymous with the negative impact on the environment and public perception must be redevelop immediately. Development needs of the ex-landfill site in the context of development in Malaysia are articulated in the National Urban Policy and the National Landscape Policy. Redevelopment of the ex-landfill is not only said to be able to mitigate with the environment problems, but also could improve the number of urban spaces and the urban economy. Hence, this paper argues the need for ex-landfill sites to be redeveloped as a public park or open spaces. Therefore, the planning standard of 2 hectares of open spaces per 1,000 urban populations could be achieved. The argument on the needs of redevelopment ex-landfill site as open space or Public Park will also be supported with literature data and field studies that show the effect of increasing well-being of the urban society based as the impact of the redevelopment of ex-landfill site as public park.
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author Mazifah Simis,
Azahan Awang,
Kadir Arifin,
spellingShingle Mazifah Simis,
Azahan Awang,
Kadir Arifin,
Urban planning: the urgent needs to redevelop ex-landfill sites as public parks in Malaysia
author_facet Mazifah Simis,
Azahan Awang,
Kadir Arifin,
author_sort Mazifah Simis,
title Urban planning: the urgent needs to redevelop ex-landfill sites as public parks in Malaysia
title_short Urban planning: the urgent needs to redevelop ex-landfill sites as public parks in Malaysia
title_full Urban planning: the urgent needs to redevelop ex-landfill sites as public parks in Malaysia
title_fullStr Urban planning: the urgent needs to redevelop ex-landfill sites as public parks in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Urban planning: the urgent needs to redevelop ex-landfill sites as public parks in Malaysia
title_sort urban planning: the urgent needs to redevelop ex-landfill sites as public parks in malaysia
publisher Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2016
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10946/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10946/
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