Kausar Hj Ali

Universiti Sains Malaysia | USM · Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Residential mobility behaviour is about people’s choices and preferences whether to remain at the present house and neighbourhood, or to move out. Moving to another house or neighbourhood entails a deliberate decision that require various considerations by the residents involved especially in dealing with housing adjustments, life neccesities and f...

Most people have experienced a crucial moment of decision during their life course, that of whether to stay over or to move out of their house and neighbourhood. Residential mobility refers to mobility thoughts and intentions, as well as the actual moving behaviours among the residents, which are often triggered by feelings of dissatisfactions, sta...

Urbanization occurred in most developing countries has caused urban expansion that involved changes in structural and population growth in the surrounding territory, commonly known as peri-urban. Peri-urban area had undergone transition process from rural agricultural land into the built environment, dominated by housing settlements serving the gro...

Residential mobility is associated with the human life cycle such as personal and family attributes as well as the residents’ housing profiles such as homeownership and housing type. This study aims to establish the mobility intention among households of different socioeconomic status (SES) by examining factors pertaining to their life cycle course...

Neighbourhood quality can generally be determined using a similar approach as the quality of life (QoL). The context ofa neighbourhood is based on a block of housing with their boundaries located within a same geographical area; while QoLexpresses an individual’s or a society’s life satisfaction that cuts across a wider perspective and space. A stu...

Participation in design and implementation works is the right of all citizens. Accordingly, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of residents’ participation in design and implementation works on their satisfaction about the quality of the apartments in multi-storey housing projects in Gaza, Palestine. The data were obtained from random samples o...

Multi-storey housing projects are a new orientation in Gaza, Palestine resulting from the increase of residents and limitation and high prices of lands. Residents’ participation is essential for implementing maintenance works to prolong the housing structures’ life and to delay the need for new structure redevelopment. Five levels of participation...

This paper aims to determine spatial factors affecting the integration of informal settlements and in the light of these factors , identifying specialty of Erbil city`s informal areas in terms of integration with the surrounding planned urban fabric. This study adapt qualitative case study method to provide in-depth information about non integrated...