Managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in Malaysia

Social sustainability is a form of development that promotes a harmonious society that is conducive to residential integration and improvement of the population's quality of life. The rapid urbanization of today’s society has increased the costs of living and created much social problems and cr...

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Main Authors:	Hew, William Wee-Lim, Lau, Siok Hwa, Goh, Gerald Guan-Gan, Low, Boon-Yee
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14205/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14205/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14205/1/32139-114065-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-142052020-02-12T14:20:11Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14205/ Managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in Malaysia Hew, William Wee-Lim Lau, Siok Hwa Goh, Gerald Guan-Gan Low, Boon-Yee Social sustainability is a form of development that promotes a harmonious society that is conducive to residential integration and improvement of the population's quality of life. The rapid urbanization of today’s society has increased the costs of living and created much social problems and crime. Crime has turned new residential projects into urban ghettoes, driving property prices down, encouraging urban flight. The desertion of traditional housing estates and the poor sales performance of new residential projects has put a dampener into the national property market. Thus, this study was conducted in two stages at the southern region of Malaysia. First, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 residents in crime-prone localities using snowball sampling. Second, discussions were held with 11 housing developers. This paper discusses the impacts of crime on residents, the housing market, and how the issue may be resolved from the perspectives of these two groups of respondents. The interviews revealed the destabilizing nature of crime on the sustainability of urban housing and the gradual failing of traditional open neighbourhoods in favour of safer, gated and guarded neighbourhoods; it also revealed the difficult operational positions faced by property developers in the past in particular the high costs incurred and the large overhang units. This paper contributes by recommending how developers may incorporate crime-prevention measures through innovative spatial management practices such as in eco-housing to increase attractiveness of their projects while minimizing costs. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14205/1/32139-114065-1-PB.pdf Hew, William Wee-Lim and Lau, Siok Hwa and Goh, Gerald Guan-Gan and Low, Boon-Yee (2019) Managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in Malaysia. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 15 (4). pp. 106-121. ISSN 2180-2491 http://ejournals.ukm.my/gmjss/issue/view/1226
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description	Social sustainability is a form of development that promotes a harmonious society that is conducive to residential integration and improvement of the population's quality of life. The rapid urbanization of today’s society has increased the costs of living and created much social problems and crime. Crime has turned new residential projects into urban ghettoes, driving property prices down, encouraging urban flight. The desertion of traditional housing estates and the poor sales performance of new residential projects has put a dampener into the national property market. Thus, this study was conducted in two stages at the southern region of Malaysia. First, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 residents in crime-prone localities using snowball sampling. Second, discussions were held with 11 housing developers. This paper discusses the impacts of crime on residents, the housing market, and how the issue may be resolved from the perspectives of these two groups of respondents. The interviews revealed the destabilizing nature of crime on the sustainability of urban housing and the gradual failing of traditional open neighbourhoods in favour of safer, gated and guarded neighbourhoods; it also revealed the difficult operational positions faced by property developers in the past in particular the high costs incurred and the large overhang units. This paper contributes by recommending how developers may incorporate crime-prevention measures through innovative spatial management practices such as in eco-housing to increase attractiveness of their projects while minimizing costs.
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author	Hew, William Wee-Lim Lau, Siok Hwa Goh, Gerald Guan-Gan Low, Boon-Yee
spellingShingle	Hew, William Wee-Lim Lau, Siok Hwa Goh, Gerald Guan-Gan Low, Boon-Yee Managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in Malaysia
author_facet	Hew, William Wee-Lim Lau, Siok Hwa Goh, Gerald Guan-Gan Low, Boon-Yee
author_sort	Hew, William Wee-Lim
title	Managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in Malaysia
title_short	Managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in Malaysia
title_full	Managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in Malaysia
title_sort	managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in malaysia
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2019
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Managing crime for urban wellbeing and sustainable housing delivery: through the lens of residents and housing developers in Malaysia

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