Siti Hajar Binti Misnan

• PhD (Housing Economics)
• Programme Director at University of Technology Malaysia

The pursuit of Local Economic Development (LED) resilience through culture and tourism in rural Ghana offers significant potential for driving economic growth, reducing poverty, and preserving the environment. Despite the rich cultural and natural resources available, rural communities often fail to capitalize on these benefits due to insufficient...

Streets are an important part of a city. Streets provide city views and experiences for their users. Streetscape as a visual depiction of the urban environment can reflect the aesthetics of the urban area and improve urban visual quality. Streetscapes must be planned to provide spatial and visual comfort for pedestrians. Sustainable streetscapes ca...

Local economic development (LED) in rural communities is a vital aspect of achieving balanced national growth and enhancing the well-being of rural households. However, rural areas face unique challenges that necessitate a focused understanding of the determinants influencing their economic development. This paper aims to examine the determinants t...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of the splitter-island on pedestrian safety at roundabouts, considering the interaction between pedestrians and vehicles. Traffic accident statistics have traditionally been used to assess traffic safety. This method has severe limitations when used to investigate the impact of a particular feature of tra...

A number of studies address the spatial planning, architectural design, and management of public open spaces (POSs) to curb the overuse of spaces to create high-quality spaces. Little attention has been paid to the problem of underutilization of POSs. Therefore, this paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the literature on the factors that in...

Over the years, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) has been successfully applied into various industries in attempt to analyse on the cost-effectiveness of their activities and performances within the economic activities. As such, Construction Industry also adopt the theory by taking advantage of TCE’s good merits in their construction plan and activ...

Community participation in urban planning in Peninsular Malaysia is framed by the Town and Country Planning Act 1976. Iskandar Malaysia is facing rapid urbanisation, which sees development intensification, especially in Johor Bahru. As a result, it has inflicted challenges on local planning authorities in Iskandar Malaysia to plan and provide genui...

Over the years, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) has been successfully applied into various industries in attempt to analyse on the cost-effectiveness of their activities and performances within the economic activities. As such, Construction Industry also adopt the theory parallel with TCE application in various industries, academic works regarding...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of community participation in planning and operational decision-making in Iskandar Malaysia. Iskandar Malaysia region consists of four local planning authorities responsible for planning and managing the spatial development in the region. Conceptually, effective community participation helps the local...

Malaysia has set a target by looking at green growth as an important game changer in the Eleventh Malaysia Plan and there has been initiatives and directions made in efforts of transitioning towards a green economy. Rural development plays a strong role in achieving this target as it would involve primary production sectors of agriculture and fores...

Local Economic Development (LED) is the main anchor through which economic development is achieved by building entrepreneurial capacities and improving opportunities for economic growth and citizens’ quality of life, especially in rural settlements. In Ghana, the implementation of LED is under the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralization and...

Agriculture is an integral part of the world’s economy and global food security, but excessive use of fertilizer and improper use of pesticides are harmful to the environment. This creates the importance of encouraging farmers to practice sustainable agriculture to decrease environmental impacts and conserve natural resources. Increasing the rate o...

Agriculture is an important contributor of rural development. The rural area will benefit economically, socially, and environmentally if the approach of sustainability in agricultural activities is put into practise. This, in turn, will help to make rural development more sustainable in the long run. In a similar light, rural development strategies...

The built environment is considered to be a key factor to promote the active travel (AT) of the elderly in neighbourhood. This study seeks to comprehensively identify the built environmental factors influencing active travel and to show how those environmental factors impact active travel the old adults. It reviewed the literature on neighbourhood-...

Agriculture is one of the main driving forces of rural development. Ensuring its sustainability in practice will provide economic, social and environmental benefits to the rural area. This will then contribute to sustainable rural development in general. Similarly, the processes of rural development are also the external influences that can facilit...

Rhetorically, effective community participation in urban planning helps the local planning authority in making a better decision, hence provided a sustainable and quality living environment to the community. The allocation for the community to participate in urban planning in Peninsular Malaysia is highlighted in the Town and Country Planning Act 1...

Despite the Nigerian government's efforts to provide affordable housing to the country's low and medium-income groups, the efforts have not yielded the desired results. These have led individuals, families, and organisations to supply housing either on their own or on a rental basis. Although several scholars have attempted to investigate the probl...

Traditionally, villager’s houses organised in groups, surrounded by green nature, landscape, each space connected by informal pathways to form a settlement known as village, kampong or ‘kampung’. The kampong setting grow harmoniously and evolved over the years. Indirectly the culture and values of the Malay community in the village are slowly influ...

Sustainability in housing includes the concept of housing affordability that revolves around the elements of sustainable housing affordability. Affordable housing provision could be discussed under the context of social equity where it demonstrates the ability of all segments of the population to have access to housing. Housing production in Malays...

Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme is an international residency scheme that allows the expatriates to live in Malaysia on a long stay visa up to 10 years. In the past 10 years, the programme generated about RM17 billion through receipts and spending amounts by the programme’s participants. Due to their rights to own properties in the nation,...

Planning for sustainable rural development in Malaysia has entered a phase where rural areas are no longer tied merely to food production as an economic activity. The increasing demand for rural amenities, ecosystem services and preservation of cultural landscapes generates the idea of a much diverse option for an alleviation of the local economy....

This study explores the impact of different household demographic characteristics on energy conservation and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission in Mahabad city located in the northwest of Iran. The structural model adopted was composed of six variables, including household age, household size, educational qualification, income quintile, gender, and ener...

Afghanistan witnessed rapid urbanization in recent decades due to the post-war recovery process. When the war ended in 2001 with the fall of Taliban regime, most Afghan refugees returned to urban areas of Afghanistan, especially in Kabul. Moreover, the rapid urbanization, migration from rural areas, and population growth impacted Kabul with the man...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of community participation in planning decision-making in Iskandar Malaysia. The metropolitan region consists of four local planning authorities that are responsible for governing the spatial planning in the region. Rhetorically, effective community participation helps the local planning au...

Rural, poor and marginalized community often face many challenges in achieving economic equality and attaining socio-economic sustainability, especially among rural communities who have limited sources of income. In countries with emerging economies such as Malaysia, rural populations constitute the majority of citizens. They are generally poorer a...

Afghanistan witnessed rapid urbanization in recent decades due to the post-war recovery process. When the war ended in 2001 by fall of Taliban regime, most Afghans refugees returned to urban areas of Afghanistan, especially in Kabul city. Moreover, the rapid urbanization, migration from rural areas, and population growth impacted on Kabul city with...

Afghanistan witnessed rapid urbanization in recent decades due to the post-war recovery process. When the war ended in 2001 by fall of Taliban regime, most Afghans refugees returned to urban areas of Afghanistan, especially in Kabul city. Moreover, the rapid urbanization, migration from rural areas, and population growth impacted on Kabul city with...

Community participation in planning decision-making in Peninsular Malaysia is fundamental for achieving sustainable development by deliberating on the present and future interests of the community. The provision for the community to participate in both the strategic and operational planning is stated in the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (Act 1...

This study seeks to find a method to identify the dominant pattern of energy choice and consumption in households, centering on demographic factors affecting the use of home appliances. To this aim, this study dealt with a variety of energy sources widely used by households, namely, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), electricity, and kerosene for cooki...

Second homes primarily used for leisure and recreation, which located away from the city. The scenario changed over the years as there are a lot of programmes, namely second home or international migration programmes around the world that promote and attract the foreigners, not only to live in other countries but also giving the opportunities to in...

Second homes primarily used for leisure and recreation, which located away from the city. The scenario changed over the years as there are a lot of programmes, namely second home or international migration programmes around the world that promote and attract the foreigners, not only to live in other countries but also giving the opportunities to in...

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to develop a theoretical framework of collaborative planning for empowering community participation and influence in urban planning. Impact of neoliberalism in urban governance has contributed to the elitism in decision-making, thus benefited certain community segments. This underlined problem has implied the...

This study investigates how spatial distribution of gated and guarded communities integrated each other and influencing existing conventional neighbourhood. More than 15 years ago, concern over rising crime rate and the movement in trend for luxury living influence housing developer to introduce gated community schemes in suburban area of Kuala Lum...

In order to study the institutions and governances structure from community association perspective in Malaysian housing, this article examines major component and institutional framework on housing management in general. Housing is sustainable if everyone has the opportunity to improve their living conditions through housing management institution...

Sustainable development concept has opened a broad range of understanding and interpretation among people. Researchers have been adopting the concept in various disciplines within their interests of studies. In line with this, the urge to adopt the concept of sustainable development has drawn interests among construction professionals. The construc...