Malaysian urbanization transition: from nascent, pseudo to livable mega - urban region
In the relatively short history of modern Malaysian urbanization experiences, a three phase urbanization transition is proposed, namely the phases of nascent, pseudo and the rise of the mega urban region. It is recognized that modern urban centres in the country were founded by the British admi...
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ukm-22932016-12-14T06:31:12Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2293/ Malaysian urbanization transition: from nascent, pseudo to livable mega - urban region Abdul Samad Hadi, Shaharudin Idrus, Abdul Hadi Harman Shah, Ahmad Fariz Mohamed, In the relatively short history of modern Malaysian urbanization experiences, a three phase urbanization transition is proposed, namely the phases of nascent, pseudo and the rise of the mega urban region. It is recognized that modern urban centres in the country were founded by the British administration of the country as from the 18th century, albeit the existence of the Melaka empire around the 15th or 13th century. The urban centres founded by the British were mainly administrative centres to administer law and order in order to sustain the exploitation of tin and the vibrancy of commercial rubber production, in addition to the provision of goods and services. These urban centres were generally ‘foreign’ to the conception of life of the local people who participated marginally in the market economy controlled by British capitals and later Chinese migrants’ capital. The required labour force to run these urban centres was met mainly by Chinese and Indian migrants whom the British encouraged to be brought in. Briefly, the basic characterization of the urbanization process during the nascent phase is that the process involved cross border labour flows from South China and India, and the urban centres were just islands of modernisation seeds in the relatively rural spatial domain. The challenge of urban living in the mega urban region centres on sustaining the quality of urban life, access to better quality jobs, shelters, education, personal safety, health and infrastructures in a globalizing world Environmental Management Society, Malaysia 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2293/1/Article2_Samad.pdf Abdul Samad Hadi, and Shaharudin Idrus, and Abdul Hadi Harman Shah, and Ahmad Fariz Mohamed, (2010) Malaysian urbanization transition: from nascent, pseudo to livable mega - urban region. Malaysian Journal of Environmental Management, 11 (1). pp. 3-13. ISSN 1511-7855 http://www.ems-malaysia.org/mjem/index.html |
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In the relatively short history of modern Malaysian
urbanization experiences, a three phase urbanization
transition is proposed, namely the phases of nascent, pseudo
and the rise of the mega urban region. It is recognized that
modern urban centres in the country were founded by the
British administration of the country as from the 18th
century, albeit the existence of the Melaka empire around
the 15th or 13th century. The urban centres founded by the
British were mainly administrative centres to administer
law and order in order to sustain the exploitation of tin and
the vibrancy of commercial rubber production, in addition
to the provision of goods and services. These urban centres
were generally ‘foreign’ to the conception of life of the local
people who participated marginally in the market economy
controlled by British capitals and later Chinese migrants’
capital. The required labour force to run these urban
centres was met mainly by Chinese and Indian migrants
whom the British encouraged to be brought in. Briefly, the
basic characterization of the urbanization process during
the nascent phase is that the process involved cross border
labour flows from South China and India, and the urban
centres were just islands of modernisation seeds in the
relatively rural spatial domain. The challenge of urban
living in the mega urban region centres on sustaining the
quality of urban life, access to better quality jobs, shelters,
education, personal safety, health and infrastructures in a
globalizing world |
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Abdul Samad Hadi, Shaharudin Idrus, Abdul Hadi Harman Shah, Ahmad Fariz Mohamed, |
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Malaysian urbanization transition:
from nascent, pseudo to livable mega - urban region |
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Malaysian urbanization transition:
from nascent, pseudo to livable mega - urban region |
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Malaysian urbanization transition:
from nascent, pseudo to livable mega - urban region |
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Malaysian urbanization transition:
from nascent, pseudo to livable mega - urban region |
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Malaysian urbanization transition:
from nascent, pseudo to livable mega - urban region |
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malaysian urbanization transition:
from nascent, pseudo to livable mega - urban region |
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Environmental Management Society, Malaysia |
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2010 |
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