Perception analysis of living environment at Taman Melati residential area

Rapid physical development in a residential area will deteriorate living environment of the residents especially if it takes place haphazardly without applying adequate planning guidelines. It will, eventually, exert more pressure on physical infrastructure of the area. As a result, residents of the...

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Main Authors: Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez, Masao, Miura, Shuhei, Inokuma, Yosuke, Nishimura
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya 2010
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spelling iium-40302013-01-19T00:35:25Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/4030/ Perception analysis of living environment at Taman Melati residential area Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez Masao, Miura Shuhei, Inokuma Yosuke, Nishimura NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying Rapid physical development in a residential area will deteriorate living environment of the residents especially if it takes place haphazardly without applying adequate planning guidelines. It will, eventually, exert more pressure on physical infrastructure of the area. As a result, residents of the area will be subjected to dissatisfaction on the present supporting infrastructure as the demand exceeds the supply. Evidently, it may lead to poor living conditions of the area, which ultimately slow the progressiveness of the society to achieve the quality of living standards. This paper investigates residents’ perceptions on present living environmental setting at Taman Melati residential area in Kuala Lumpur. Questionnaire survey was administered to determine the perceptions of the residents on physical environmental parameters such as air, noise, streetlight illuminance, and traffic volume. The level of satisfaction of the residents on the living environment had showed nearly 64% of the respondents expressed “satisfied strongly” or “satisfied”. The level of willingness of the residents to stay further continuously at Taman Melati indicates about 56% of the respondents expressed “strongly willing” or “willing”. It is also seen that the overall satisfaction level of the residents on the living environment was high albeit satisfaction level on individual physical environmental parameters was low. Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya 2010-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/4030/2/JDBEpaper_4030.pdf Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez and Masao, Miura and Shuhei, Inokuma and Yosuke, Nishimura (2010) Perception analysis of living environment at Taman Melati residential area. Journal of Design and Built Enviornment, 7. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1823-4208 http://umrefjournal.um.edu.my/public/browse-journal-view.php?id=68
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topic NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
spellingShingle NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez
Masao, Miura
Shuhei, Inokuma
Yosuke, Nishimura
Perception analysis of living environment at Taman Melati residential area
description Rapid physical development in a residential area will deteriorate living environment of the residents especially if it takes place haphazardly without applying adequate planning guidelines. It will, eventually, exert more pressure on physical infrastructure of the area. As a result, residents of the area will be subjected to dissatisfaction on the present supporting infrastructure as the demand exceeds the supply. Evidently, it may lead to poor living conditions of the area, which ultimately slow the progressiveness of the society to achieve the quality of living standards. This paper investigates residents’ perceptions on present living environmental setting at Taman Melati residential area in Kuala Lumpur. Questionnaire survey was administered to determine the perceptions of the residents on physical environmental parameters such as air, noise, streetlight illuminance, and traffic volume. The level of satisfaction of the residents on the living environment had showed nearly 64% of the respondents expressed “satisfied strongly” or “satisfied”. The level of willingness of the residents to stay further continuously at Taman Melati indicates about 56% of the respondents expressed “strongly willing” or “willing”. It is also seen that the overall satisfaction level of the residents on the living environment was high albeit satisfaction level on individual physical environmental parameters was low.
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author Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez
Masao, Miura
Shuhei, Inokuma
Yosuke, Nishimura
author_facet Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez
Masao, Miura
Shuhei, Inokuma
Yosuke, Nishimura
author_sort Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez
title Perception analysis of living environment at Taman Melati residential area
title_short Perception analysis of living environment at Taman Melati residential area
title_full Perception analysis of living environment at Taman Melati residential area
title_fullStr Perception analysis of living environment at Taman Melati residential area
title_full_unstemmed Perception analysis of living environment at Taman Melati residential area
title_sort perception analysis of living environment at taman melati residential area
publisher Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya
publishDate 2010
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/4030/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/4030/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/4030/2/JDBEpaper_4030.pdf
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