Neighbourhood expansion and urban livability in Seremban municipality area, Malaysia
The approach taken in this article is looks at change influencing the understanding of the phenomenon. A pattern of change that seems smooth and linear at a smaller scale might yield fluctuations that can only be perceived at a larger scale, closer to ground zero. Viewing change at the local le...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Environmental Management Society, Malaysia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2296/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2296/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2296/1/Article5_Shaharudin.pdf |
| Summary: | The approach taken in this article is looks at change
influencing the understanding of the phenomenon. A
pattern of change that seems smooth and linear at a smaller
scale might yield fluctuations that can only be perceived
at a larger scale, closer to ground zero. Viewing change
at the local level can provide tipping points and critical
transitions that are hidden in the more general pattern and
such detailed incremental approach to urbanization allows
one to understand why, given the same set of drivers,
some areas seem to prosper while others lag far behind.
This provides an alternative viewpoint to the traditional
market oriented aggregate analysis or the hedonistic
explanation to growth. This article views urban expansion
as a culmination of local level activities that emerge into a
complex network of urban growth. This urban expansion
in Malaysia can be traced back as early as the 1890, and
the transition issues in Malaysian urbanization include
the phases of the urbanization experience, the rise of mega
urban regions, and the need for a new way of viewing
the processes through the daily decision makings carried
out by individuals in the city. These decisions eventually
produce the spatial-temporal patterns of life in the
Malaysian cities. These are then visualized in the patterns
of land use, housing spread, commercial use and others.
The patterns are dynamic, often time changing in response
to changing drivers. The article argues that effective
planning for the urban expansion needs to be viewed
from the local scene. The various local scenarios are then
built up incrementally over space and time to produce a
regionwide explanation of urbanization. This is, again, an
alternate viewing of regional analysis that traditionally
looks at the local as merely being a component of the larger
region, differentiated by local attributes that create local
shifts that skew its share of the regional trend. Housing
neighbourhood in the Seremban Municipality area is uses
as an illustration of the urban expansion |
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