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HEALTHY LIVING ENVIRONMENT IN KUALA LUMPUR PUBLIC PARKS
Get PDFProviding a healthy living environment is one of the key issues for planners and designers. Various urban design and planning approaches have been debated worldwide to provide healthy living. Rapid urbanization and its impact on social, environmental and health quality. These issues are more acute in developing countries than in developed countries. Urban public parks offer many opportunities for urban dwellers to achieve a healthy living environment. Thus, this paper investigates people’s interaction with open space and the benefits of urban parks in Kuala Lumpur. Opinions of visitors from the nine urban parks in Kuala Lumpur were collected to address the aim of the research. Various levels of urban park such as the city parks, district and neighborhood parks were investigated. The parks represent all five districts in Kuala Lumpur. Altogether, 47 respondents were interviewed at seven parks. Information collected through the interview survey was analyzed using qualitative analysis techniques.
The research indicate that people are involved with active and passive activities in urban public parks. The result showed that 65.42% of respondents participated in active activities such as jogging and exercise. Meanwhile, 34.57% preferred passive activities such sightseeing, rest and relaxation. The results also indicated that, when people interact with nature, 39.08% agreed that social integration is the greatest benefit of their urban living environment. Secondly, 28.74% agreed on health benefit. Thirdly, 18.39% agreed that urban parks could provide environmental benefits and lastly was the benefits of parks management (11.49%). Finally, the study concluded that a healthy living environment can be promoted through frequent visits to urban parks by participating in activities and nature appreciation. Therefore, it is important to enhance the green strategies within urban planning and design strategy to improve healthy living
ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY ON MUGHAL MONUMENTS OF NORTH INDIA
Get PDFDue to prohibition of figurative representation in Islam, Arabic calligraphy has been a highest form of art on the surface of monuments. Before the advent of Islam, Arabic writings were not having well developed and definite styles, but revelation of Quran in Arabic opened new vistas for Arabic calligraphy. In the early decades of Islam, the Arabic calligraphy first developed to write Holy Quran on leather, bones, leaves, parchment etc. and, later this art became the part of precious objects, paintings and monuments. Along with other forms of art, the Arabic calligraphy also enriched architecture of the Islamic world. With the spread of Islam in different regions of world the art of calligraphy transmitted to new territories and consequently various styles of calligraphy were developed. The early Muslim rulers in India, the Sultans developed this art and later Mughals enriched and flourished it to its peak. The Arabic calligraphic art on Indian monuments are in the form of Quranic verses, Hadith or inscriptions mentioning information regarding monument and its builder. In this paper authors will investigate the visual and aesthetic characteristics of art of Arabic calligraphy in Mughal architecture of North India. The monuments studied here are from three capital cities of Mughal Empire in North India, viz. Agra, Delhi and Fatehpur Sikri. The study shall assist to conserve and restore the calligraphic inscriptions in Mughal buildings as they are deteriorating day by day due to negligence. It will also help designers, architects and calligraphers as calligraphy is still associated as one of the important element of contemporary religious building
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PTEROPLINTHITE MANGROVE FORESTS
Get PDFMangroves are highly beneficial as they have many environmental and social functions. This paper is aimed at identifying the unique characteristics of Pteroplinthite Mangrove Forest which is one of the mangrove types in Peninsular which has never been documented so far. This kind of mangrove can support numerous residents and non-residents species. It is important to find out the abiotic and biotic factors affecting how they perceive with their surroundings. The study is also expected to explore the most intrinsic value of Pteroplinthite Mangrove Forests that can be integrated as a landscape design element. These intrinsic values of this mangrove forest are being manipulated to be integrated into the urban landscape design setting.
The data collection involved the observation, site inventory, determination of physicochemical contents of seawater, and collected sample plants and soil that is conducted in two selected areas, namely Pasir Panjang, Port Dickson and Kuala Linggi, Melaka. The main finding shows the analysis of abiotic and biotic factors of pteroplinthite mangrove that have their own potential and there have eight of intrinsic characters that had been highlighted in the both selected areas of this mangrove forest. It is hoped that this paper may provide significant information on the characteristics of pteroplinthite mangrove forests towards understanding the ecological or functional values of Pteroplinthite mangrove forest habitat as potential approach to be integrated in landscape ecology to restore their habitats and plant species from becoming threatened or extinct
A REVIEW ON OBSERVATION OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND IN THERMAL REMOTE SENSING
Get PDFThe climate experts have proposed various approaches and strategies to understand the causes of Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to review the details concerning the themes of urban climate study and its measurement over a variety of cities. The paper discusses several approaches of thermal remote sensing study of different spatial resolution as well as satellite images. The researchers conclude with the development of an observation framework of the thermal remote sensing
POTENTIAL OF SMALL GARDEN OF DOUBLE STOREY LINKED-HOUSES: THERMAL PERFORMANCE AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
Get PDFLinked-houses is a housing type that comes with its front yard and backyard. It provides the extra outdoor spaces for the occupants. Many would utilize these spaces following their house extension and renovation projects. Some may not be aware of its potential as green spaces that they may neglect the front yard and backyard by not making full use of them. This paper seeks to study the effect of front yard and backyard on the thermal performance of the outdoor and indoor spaces of linked-houses by comparing the air temperature readings of two units of double-storey linked-houses located in the urban area of Kuala Lumpur. Unit 1 represents a house with its front yard and back yard heavily planted. Unit 2 represents the typical renovation that takes place where its front yard is paved while its back yard is minimally extended and with simple kitchen garden. The study indicates that heavily planted front yard and backyard gives positive effects on the outdoor and indoor thermal performance of the unit, as well as healthy environment, both physically and sociall
CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY’S PERSPECTIVE
Get PDFSustainable development was introduced to generate a balanced national development from the economic growth, environmental protection, and social equality. However, the development demands implemented in Malaysia have been causing various damages and destructions to the environment, inviting social problems and economic imbalances. Rapid development in construction industries observed only for profiting and ignores the well-being of the environment. Hence, initiatives should be taken to overcome the growing crisis and arouse awareness in sustainable development.Therefore, knowledge of sustainable development is important to all relevant parties in the industries. Knowledge transfer is a medium and the best platform to convey the information and knowledge about the sustainable development of individual, department, organization and agencies. However, the knowledge transfer practices are still needed room for improvement and need more efforts to turn it out as a culture among the players. In relation to that, the objective of this study to observe the existing method of knowledge transfer practices, understanding the existing method, the application of the methods used in carrying out the tasks of every department and improvements can be made to strengthen the current practices for achieving the goal of sustainable development at the local authority level
INTERIOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT: PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY IN MALAYSIAN BUILDING INDUSTRY
Get PDFThe practice of Interior Design (ID), Architecture, Mechanical & Electrical and Facilities component drawings such as conceptual design and construction drawings would need to be integrated and coordinated between the consultants and the contractor drawings. All related drawings are required to be resolved and agreed upon, so as not to cause obstacles at the actual construction site and to improve the business performance in terms of time and cost of the project. A further review of the performance measured in the interior design construction industry also indicates that productivity is an inadequate measure for identifying improvement targets and control activities.The use of a more holistic set of measures is recommended in order to ensure more relevant and timely information. The purpose of this study is to explore the integration and coordination of the respective consultants’ involvement in the project construction management that will help clients on timing and costing of the projects. The lack of coordination between multidisciplinary scope of work within project construction managements in interior, architecture, and other related fields will increase time and cost of the ID Construction projects (IIDA Report, 1998)