Na’asah Nasrudin, Ainatul Isnoriza George, Y. A. Abdullah, K. Rashid
{"title":"PUBLIC AWARENESS AND ACCEPTANCE TOWARDS TRANSPORTATION LOW CARBON CITY PROGRAMME. A COMPARISON STUDY OF MBSA AND DBKL","authors":"Na’asah Nasrudin, Ainatul Isnoriza George, Y. A. Abdullah, K. Rashid","doi":"10.21837/pm.v18i14.821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v18i14.821","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines public awareness and acceptance towards Transportation Low Carbon City’s (LCC) programme by two local authorities: Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and Shah Alam City Council (MBSA). This paper also will measure the residents’ satisfaction level on the LCC programme initiatives prepared by both authorities. The data were gathered through a survey conducted randomly from 202 respondents who represented the residents of Kuala Lumpur city and 122 respondents who represented the residents of Shah Alam city. The findings suggested that the awareness of the respondents about the Transportation LCC's programme was more positive in Kuala Lumpur as compared to Shah Alam. This was because almost 90 per cent of Kuala Lumpur respondents were aware of the programme. For feedback of willingness to change to non-motorised transportation as a support to Transportation LCC programme, Kuala Lumpur had a bright hope to fully achieve the successfulness of the LCC's programme as compared to Shah Alam. With regards to implementation of public transportation, the majority of the both respondents’ groups agreed that the available public transportation was reliable, well-connected and reachable for their desired destination. This comparison study is essential to know how well the local authority manages their LCC programme. It is hoped that the two local authorities can learn and cooperate in future to make this programme a success.","PeriodicalId":223592,"journal":{"name":"PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126393978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE VALUES AND SENSE OF PLACE OF KAMPUNG MORTEN, MELAKA","authors":"Nur Raqena Mohd Rahil, M. A. Ghani, Yazid Sarkom","doi":"10.21837/pm.v18i14.816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v18i14.816","url":null,"abstract":"Architectural heritage holds a variety of values towards the community and helps to enhance the image of a city. Currently, heritage sites all over the world are facing intense pressure from modernisation. This paper attempts to explore the relationship between the values of the architectural heritage of Kampung Morten, Melaka to its ‘sense of place’ amongst the community. To achieve this aim, the authors examine the occurrence of ‘a sense of place’, identify the architectural heritage values and analyse the challenges set by the surrounding modernisation. Methods of observation and interview were utilised in this study involving the heritage village of Kampung Morten in Melaka and its community. The findings from this study would highlight Kampung Morten’s community level of attachment to their heritage village as they reflect their experience involving the ‘sense of place’. In developing more sustainable urbanisation for Kampung Morten, this study also explores the community’s level of awareness regarding the risk of modernisation.","PeriodicalId":223592,"journal":{"name":"PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115582102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SETTING THE CRITERIA FOR URBAN TREE VANDALISM ASSESSMENT","authors":"H. Hamzah, N. Othman, N. Hussain","doi":"10.21837/pm.v18i14.815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v18i14.815","url":null,"abstract":"An urban tree monitoring programme is a management procedure that determines the performance status of trees by conducting an inventory of the number of trees, their condition, their structure, and other quantitative or qualitative characteristics. The ability to successfully carry out a monitoring programme is highly dependent on precise data. At the same time, comprehensive and strategic urban tree policies require accurate baseline and trending data. Accordingly, there is a need for an improved assessment technique for tree monitoring. Due to the increasing number of tree vandalism incidents in urban areas, the immediate objective of this research was to determine the criteria for a precise tree vandalism assessment technique. A modified Delphi method was adopted to obtain the most reliable consensus among tree care experts through a series of questionnaires. Prior to conducting the Delphi survey, the initial tree vandalism criteria were identified through a preliminary survey conducted by means of the photoelicitation technique. Experts provided the input for generating the criteria, and at the end of the second round of the Delphi survey, the experts reached a consensus on a set of criteria, which included 10 criteria related to aspects of specific motives and actions, 11 criteria related to aspects of ideologies and practices, and 11 other criteria related to the aspect of victim of circumstances. The selected criteria can be applied in a monitoring programme to assess the incidence of tree vandalism.","PeriodicalId":223592,"journal":{"name":"PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122618212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Marzukhi, N. Ghazali, O. Ling, N. S. Khalid, S. M. Kamaruddin, Muhammad Farid Azizul
{"title":"THE INFLUENCE OF URBAN PLANNING ON MENTAL HEALTH. CASE STUDY: FEDERAL TERRITORY OF KUALA LUMPUR","authors":"M. Marzukhi, N. Ghazali, O. Ling, N. S. Khalid, S. M. Kamaruddin, Muhammad Farid Azizul","doi":"10.21837/pm.v18i14.825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v18i14.825","url":null,"abstract":"The health impacts of the development and environment have been widely assessed, but little is known about the impact of physical characteristics of urban planning on people's mental well-being. Thus, this research is crucial to understand the mental health challenges of urban population in Malaysia. The objective of this research is to examine the influence of urban planning on mental health, particularly the attributes of urban planning, density and land use, as well as their potential relation to psychological stress, depression and anxiety. The study was carried out at low-cost flats at Pantai Dalam in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. Besides the secondary data collection and site observation, a survey in a form of questionnaire that used Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) was distributed. The findings showed that density and land use contributed to mental disorders. The research findings can be applied by government agencies, professionals and private sectors to plan healthier urban physical environment. This research will add to the growing literature that suggests the importance of the built environment in shaping mental health.","PeriodicalId":223592,"journal":{"name":"PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128978070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Syakir Amir Ab Rahman, Nur’Hidayah Dura, Muhamad Asrah Yusof, Hitoshi Nakamura, Rahmat Abu Nong
{"title":"CHALLENGES OF SMART TOURISM IN MALAYSIA ECO-TOURISM DESTINATIONS","authors":"Syakir Amir Ab Rahman, Nur’Hidayah Dura, Muhamad Asrah Yusof, Hitoshi Nakamura, Rahmat Abu Nong","doi":"10.21837/pm.v18i14.844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v18i14.844","url":null,"abstract":"Smartness helps in transferring and sharing information to facilitate tourism industry optimizing performance and competitiveness, generating solution for asset evaluation and shaping tourism products and services in a real-time. In Malaysia, tourism industry is moving forwards to acknowledge smart tourism concept as Malaysia Smart Tourism 4.0 initiatives is launched recently. Therefore, this study aims to identify challenges of smart tourism application in Malaysia. 400 respondents among domestic and international tourists were recruited for the study, using questionnaire survey in two eco-tourism destination, Pulau Langkawi and Cameron Highland. Chi-square test was used to assess the challenges. Awareness, security and privacy, and implementation mechanism of smart tourism are among the highest challenges were observed. This study extends for a new establishment of proper and comprehensive framework of smart tourism in Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":223592,"journal":{"name":"PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114861945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOUR IN SOCIAL PROBLEM: A CASE STUDY OF NORTH EAST PENANG, MALAYSIA","authors":"N. A. Latip","doi":"10.21837/pm.v18i14.842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v18i14.842","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the study is to explore a possible connection between urban development and the social problem faced by an adolescent, the group who considered to be a trivial problem and less been discussed detailed in previous studies. The establishment of theory and research procedure to mitigate this subject's exploration leads to the analysis of the relationship of determination factors between adolescent social problems and urban development, the exploration study approach used with the questionnaire that equips with nominal and ordinal scales as a tool. The random sampling method practically implemented to the target group, which is an adolescent from several residential in Penang, Malaysia. George Town, Bukit Jambul, Ayer Itam, Gelugor, Jelutong, Tanjung Tokong and Tanjung Pinang select as areas of study. The preliminary findings show a significant connection between urban development and adolescent behavior pattern. This study's results indicate that the event and the elements of municipal facilities and family ties include the role of parents as a strong influence on youth involvement in social problems. It can also be used as a reference for future research in urban development factors and enrich the study of welfare and social security of adolescents towards sustainable urban communities.","PeriodicalId":223592,"journal":{"name":"PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134235233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Ngah, L. Putit, Azmi Mat, J. Abdullah, R. A. Majid
{"title":"MODERATING EFFECT OF SERVICE QUALITY ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR AND ANTECEDENTS","authors":"R. Ngah, L. Putit, Azmi Mat, J. Abdullah, R. A. Majid","doi":"10.21837/pm.v18i14.819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v18i14.819","url":null,"abstract":"Public transport infrastructure has been massively developed to encourage public transport usage in Kuala Lumpur. However, a low percentage of public transport ridership dampens the objectives to reduce traffic congestion and air population. This paper attempts to investigate the effect of travel intention and the moderating effect of general service quality of public transport on travel behaviour among commuters in Kuala Lumpur. A survey was carried out at LRT stations, and a total of 904 were usable. Most of the respondents are young adults between 20-29 years old, and the majority earned less than RM3,000 a month. Most of them possess a vehicle and driving license. Findings showed that travel intention has a significant effect on travel behaviour. Interestingly, service quality, in general, weakly moderates the relationship between travel intention and travel behaviour in a reverse direction. The findings would help relevant authorities to set strategies to encourage more private riders further to switch to public transport.","PeriodicalId":223592,"journal":{"name":"PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114229051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. A. Latip, Mastura Jaafar, A. Marzuki, Kamand M. Roufechaei, M. U. Umar, R. Karim
{"title":"THE IMPACT OF TOURISM ACTIVITIES ON THE ENVIRONMENT OF MOUNT KINABALU, UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE","authors":"N. A. Latip, Mastura Jaafar, A. Marzuki, Kamand M. Roufechaei, M. U. Umar, R. Karim","doi":"10.21837/pm.v18i14.841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v18i14.841","url":null,"abstract":"Tourism contributes to the conservation and protection of mountainous areas, and even the characteristics and activities of tourism also affect the environmental sustainability of an area. This study aims to identify tourist characteristics, their opinion towards a sustainable environment, their activities conducted at the park and environmental impacts. Overall, 383 respondents agreed to participate, and the response has been analysed using the relative importance’s of these activities, and environmental impacts were quantified by the relative importance index method. Most of them visited Mount Kinabalu to experience natural sightseeing and hiking activity. Majority of them know environmental concern but feeling that KNP is rather crowded. Overall, the most popular activities were mount climbing and wildlife sightseeing by domestic and international tourist. The result of the study also has shown that noise and air pollution were ranked as the most important environmental impacts factors. Considering mountain tourism is an attraction and contributor to the economy of Sabah, there must be effective preventive measures. Because of that, planning, implementing and strengthening new policies and rules for tourist activities regarding the conservation and protection will help to minimize the impacts of tourism. Through the results of the study using the Relative Importance Index (RII) analysis, it is hoped that it will be able to help provide suggestions and solutions to balance the impacts of tourism in Mount Kinabalu towards sustainability.","PeriodicalId":223592,"journal":{"name":"PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126224933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE IMPACT OF PHYSICAL FEATURES AND ENVIRONMENT ON CRIME IN URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD AREAS","authors":"F. Othman, Z. Yusoff, S. A. Salleh","doi":"10.21837/pm.v18i14.818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v18i14.818","url":null,"abstract":"The physical design of features and environment will stimulate a safe and sustainable development of the neighbourhood. Despite possessing a proper form, a private space which does not control and keep could even raise fear and crime incident. Therefore, this study planned to analyse the fear, perception and potential feature that caused the crime event in neighbourhoods. Three years of burglary data got from the Royal Malaysia Police helped to explain the crime trend and pattern. Besides, a statistical analysis conducted to examine the fear level and perception towards crime incident using a set of questionnaires. Next, the potential features and visibility level examined in the unit of a house that has experienced the burglary event. The purpose is to find any element that can affect crime event. Results prove that actual crime data not associated with fear and perception of the crime. Besides, accessibility, visibility and crime pattern were the key elements to consider for crime prevention.","PeriodicalId":223592,"journal":{"name":"PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125580385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Rosli, O. Ling, Nurhazlin Amira Mohd Adzmi, M. Marzukhi
{"title":"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN QUALITY OF URBAN PARKS AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: A CASE STUDY IN CHANGKAT PUBLIC PARK, BATU GAJAH, PERAK","authors":"S. Rosli, O. Ling, Nurhazlin Amira Mohd Adzmi, M. Marzukhi","doi":"10.21837/pm.v18i14.824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v18i14.824","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, people, especially urban dwellers were not active. Physical inactivity will lead to an unhealthy body. Previous research found that physical activity will contribute to a healthy life. Based on the previous research, high-quality recreation areas, including urban parks and playgrounds can provide a wide variety of opportunities for physical activity and have the potential to help community in leading a more active lifestyle. However, the statistical relationship between the quality of urban parks and physical activity is yet to be examined, especially for Malaysia. Due to the gap, a study was conducted in Changkat Public Park (Taman Awam Changkat) , Batu Gajah, Perak Darul Ridzuan with the aim to examine the statistical relationship between quality of the urban park and physical activity. The park quality was evaluated based on five (5) aspects which were facilities and amenities, accessibility, informative (signage), safety, as well as attraction. Pertaining to physical activity, this study focussed on time allocation, as well as frequency and type of activity of the park visitors. Data were obtained through a questionnaire survey among visitors. The relationship between urban park quality and physical activity in the study area was analysed using a correlation test. The study found that the quality of the park was moderately corrected to the active level of the respondents. As an implication, urban parks require serious concern by the designers and managers to uphold the quality for visitors.","PeriodicalId":223592,"journal":{"name":"PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134501746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}