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The landscape spectrum of Malaysia portrays rich, multiple natural and developed landscapes. Surprisingly, there are not any regulations that directly govern the landscape. It depends entirely on existing regulations that are not mentioned in detail regarding the 'landscape' specifically. As an alternative mechanism, it has several regulations used...
Rapid urbanization has introduced new pollution challenges, with visual pollution becoming particularly prominent. This type of pollution affects both the visual environment and public psychology, impairing aesthetic appreciation. Visual pollution extends beyond outdoor advertising, manifesting in various forms across urban, roadway, and natural ar...
Highways play a vital role in the road transport system, connecting regions and cities in many parts of the world. It may sometimes offer scenic views or a visually appealing environment based on the availability of unique compositions of natural and man-made elements within the highway vicinity. The highway’s landscapes could significantly impact...
Regarding landscape preferences for highways, there is a dynamic interaction between users and the variety of natural and cultural landscape elements along the roadside, reflecting a balance between the highway and the natural environment. However, the rapid pace of urbanization has accelerated the development of highways, leading to the neglect or...
This paper aims to explore the significance of green infrastructure in residential within the urban and suburban areas. Green infrastructure refers to the strategically planned and interconnected network of natural and semi-natural areas, such as parks, gardens, and green spaces, designed to provide multiple environmental, social, and economic bene...
Permanent forest reserves (PFR) in urban areas are an integral aspect of the urban forest concept and the basis of a city’s green infrastructure. The preservation of natural forests in urban areas has become a widely researched topic due to the environmental, social, and economic benefits provided by it. Although several studies have shown that vis...
The rural road landscape is crucial in forming rural areas’ landscape character (LC). As a platform for portraying the rural landscape, the rural roads demonstrate the area’s unique natural and cultural characteristics to visitors. However, with the continuous development of rural areas, the rural LC has been severely impacted, thus impacting visit...
The rural road landscape is crucial in forming rural areas' landscape character (LC). As a platform for portraying the rural landscape, the rural roads demonstrate the area's unique natural and cultural characteristics to the visitors. However, with the continuous development of rural areas, the rural LC has been severely impacted, thus impacting v...
This study investigates the impact of place attachment on park utilisation through residents’ interaction. The correlation between place attachment attributes (functional, emotional and social attachments) and social interaction (engagement patterns and levels of interaction) is tested within Malaysian neighbourhood parks. The findings are based on...
Permanent urban forest reserves are aesthetic assets within cities. Consequently, their aesthetic quality must be continuously preserved and visually assessed. Even though numerous studies have utilized multiple variables to characterize visual aesthetics, they have lacked information on the importance and weightage of each variable, making it very...
Small Urban Parks (SUP) are vital parts of cities that can enhance the quality of the public environment. Visual Preferences (VP) in SUPs, which consist of diverse stimuli, are affected by multisensory perception, including the combination of auditory, olfactory, and tactile stimuli. However, the relationship between sensory stimuli integration (so...
Green space is a crucial environmental setting that offers the elderly physical activities to keep them healthy. This study aimed to identify the best parks in Kuala Lumpur to investigate the elderly quality of life. Eight potential parks in Kuala Lumpur have been targeted for field observations to determine which parks would be the best for this s...
Visual aesthetic quality is the visual pleasure level that attracts people and makes them prefer certain areas. Visual aesthetic quality is valued and considered for urban forests but remains challenging. This could be due to a lack of understanding of visual aesthetic quality assessment variables based on visual aesthetic theories. This study supp...
Malaysia has suffered a significant loss of forest cover over the years, mainly due to logging and land clearance for agriculture activities. Although the forest legislation has long been established and continuously enforced, it was not inclusive enough to protect the local natural resources. This study aims to identify public perception and aware...
Open spaces are an important feature of any neighborhood since they serve as a hub for the community’s socio-cultural activities. According to the National Population Commission, 64% of the population in northern Nigeria lives in rural areas and utilizes outdoor spaces for their socio-cultural lives. The typology and ownership of rural open spaces...
Aesthetic experience in a forest can typically be associated with attractive forest scenery that gives people a sense of visual pleasure. Characterized as a visual product based on people’s reactions towards various combinations of landscape settings, features, and objects, this type of natural visual pleasure may benefit people’s well-being, promo...
Urban parks are inseparable part of green spaces that have been recognized for developing the surrounding environment’s quality. Aesthetic comprehension in Urban Pocket Parks, as an environment which contains various stimuli, is influenced by multi-sensory perception that includes the integration of non-visual (tactile, auditory and olfactory) and...
This study aims to provide an overview of the pocket parks in the city centre of Kuala Lumpur while identifying the characteristics of the pocket parks associated with the visitation and usage. This study also intends to identify the constraints that limit the use of pocket parks according to Malaysia context. A survey conducted among N=363 respond...
Visual pollution significantly affects public appreciation of the urban environment. Sources of visual pollution such as wastes, energy infrastructures, and advertising boards can cause discomfort towards one's ability to enjoy a scene or view. Although visual pollution is prevalent in the urban environment, less is known regarding public acceptanc...
The rising need for social interaction is evident particularly in urban areas due to a stressful urban life and social isolation. In residential areas, neighborhood parks have an important function in supporting social integration and social bonding. Nevertheless, studies have indicated that these parks are not fully utilized for the benefits of re...
The number of malls in Malaysia has not only increased dramatically, but they have also been subject to continual expansion over the past few years. Despite this rate of expansion, there has not been enough attention paid to the quality of the spaces and interior landscaping of the malls on the basis of people's preferences. This study aimed to bri...
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A public space is a place of significance when it fulfils the human need for social interaction and attachment. However, the scarcity of public spaces poses a challenge to support socialisation for people within a defined social and cultural group. The purpose of this paper is to explore the association between place attachment and social...
Pedestrian bridges as urban infrastructurs, could play a critical role toimprove aesthetic qualityof urban areas. In Tehran, most of the pedestrian bridges are built in a similar structure regardles to the visual characteristics of their environments. However, many studies haveconfirmed the importance of harmony between aesthetic qualityof the brid...
Place attachment or ‘the emotional bond between person and place’ is essential in the process of assimilating transnational students into the new educational environment as most are facing social and psychological problems in campus. While social aspects were stronger than physical ones, both affect the overall person-place bond. Inventories of eff...
Developing cities in the world are facing the threat of rapid urbanization. Creating liveable neighborhood has become a new urban agenda for the coming decades. Public spaces, including neighborhood parks, play a significant role in improving the social life of a community since they are considered the backbone of the urban park systems. However, t...
Transnationalism countenances connection between individuals and societies across borders which necessitates changes in the planning approach of higher learning institutes’ destinations. Within the changes, the sense of physically being and feeling ‘in place’ or ‘place attachment is essential for the international students to survive the new experi...
Naturalistic landscapes in urban parks, despite their many benefits, often are perceived as being unsafe, and very little research has been conducted on this issue. Thus, the goal of this study was to determine the public’s concerns and perceptions of safety regarding naturalistic landscapes in urban parks. The study used a questionnaire survey tha...
As a result of climate change and globalisation, there is growing concern to regenerate decayed parts of the cities. Urban regeneration includes existing post-industrial areas, abandoned waterfronts, historic conservation and recycle and reuse of older building stock. In Malaysia, urban regeneration in the form of historic conservation, recycle and...
Landfills are the common method of waste disposal. A closed landfill site can be an eyesore land and cause environmental hazardous impacts on surrounding areas. A sustainable solution for redevelopment of a closed landfill site, returns the land to an attractive and beneficial after-use. This study aim to identify potential sustainable solutions an...
Our quality of life significantly depends on open spaces. They offer facility provision for a wide range of social interactions and provide habitats for flora and fauna. A classification of spaces would be useful in preparing public open space policies and fulfilling structure plan. This study aims to propose a comprehensive open space categorizati...
Our quality of life significantly depends on open spaces. They offer facility
provision for a wide range of social interactions and provide habitats for flora
and fauna. A classification of spaces would be useful in preparing public open
space policies and fulfilling structure plan. This study aims to propose a
comprehensive open space categorizati...
Challenges between urban development and heritage conservation are more critical in developing countries since new constructions threaten historic urban areas. On account of vast developments in urban areas, the so-called cultural heritage of cities, may tolerate irreversible damages, thus striking a balance is essential. The opinions of stakeholde...
As a key national target, Malaysia has been trying to become a sustainable and developed country by 2020. In this way, social sustainability, one of the three pillars of sustainable development involves participation of all people and communities as well as their enjoyment of equal human rights. Based on World Health Organization (WHO), one billion...
Malaysia in its way to become a developed country with a world class capital city, requires extra attentions to the objective and guidelines of sustainable development. In the process of economy transit to post-industrial society to reach sustainability, the tourism industry has been growing through the past half century and has become one of the f...
According to the significance of cultural heritage, either to maintain the identity of
nations or to serve as a source for tourism industry, the necessity of conservation and
preservation is inevitable. Among a broad spectrum of cultural heritage including of
tangible or intangible, materials and objects, singly or in group, historic urban areas ar...
Background: The issues of inadequate land and open spaces for community recreation in urban area are heated in the last few decades. Kuala Lumpur is not exceptional, when the scarcity of land is prioritized for economic development and leaving recreation spaces as unimportant. Professionals in urban planning and design is currently looking for new...
Urban parks are important public multifunctional space used for a wide range of activities. The usage levels of parks depend on the spatial characteristics of the spaces, where its forms and occupancies are referred as the usage-spatial relationship. Natural elements spatial complexity and park usability is of interest in this study. A photo-questi...
The relationship between plants and perceived safety in residential areas has been argued by landscape researchers, but there is inadequate or no relevant literature available on the effect of plants in urban parks’ safety. Therefore, a photo-questionnaire survey was conducted among urban park users in Tabriz, Iran to gauge the perceived safety of...
In the design process of open spaces within residential apartments, little attention is paid to children and their attitude to the environment is often ignored. Children, especially those who live in high-rise apartments, were found to have less connection with nature. Children supposedly need to engage in physical activities within outdoor areas,...
Arguments surrounding the epistemology, as well as practical manifestation of various typologies of public participation are enormous. This highlights not only the fluid and complex nature of the concept but also how strongly tied it is to time and place. While the typology of public participation is often viewed from the perspective of engagement...
Knowledge about the environment is a key towards environmental sustainability. What is the best environmental education for children? This study aims to investigate children preferences for natural environment that should become the basis for environmental education. To measure preferences, photo-projective method is used to 17 children, aged in be...
Gardens are created by people based on their needs, culture, and philosophy. They possess
specific individual features or identities shaped through time, depending on people’s tastes and
preferences as well as the surrounding environment. However, developing gardens do not own
specific and distinct identities to distinguish them. In fact, even t...
Malaysia is a developing country that has been experiencing rapid development since its
independence in 1957. The country-with its unique natural and cultural heritage-is in need of
projecting its own landscape identity through the development of a distinct national garden identity.
This paper discusses a study that used Content Identifying Methodo...
Parks should be noble public spaces that provide greenery and nature not only for people to enjoy but also for a particular city to be sustainable with its ecological functions and values. However, some of these parks fail to attract people to visit and use them. El Goli, a park in the city of Tabriz, is an example of a park that people do not use...
This study presents the relationship between "perceived restorative potential" (PRP) and "preference" for an environment with respect to their relationship with the restorative components outlined by attention restoration theory (ART) in two categories: urban built landscape (UBL) and urban natural landscape (UNL). In this experimental study, 120 p...
Malaysia has always been proud of her unique natural environment and cultural heritages,
but still is searching for an exclusive identity of its own gardens. There is a great potential
for development of a garden identity for the country, based on her rich legacy in traditions,
cultures and beliefs, through which she could identify herself. The nat...
Gardens are natural and cultural artifacts presenting both natural and manmade beauty through their images. The collection of these representative images or iconography forms the particular identity of a garden. Hence, different gardens present a variety of iconographies, which could affect people preferences for them. For the purpose of this study...
A number of studies have found relationships between nature and people's health. These studies indicated three levels of engagement including viewing, being and involvement with nature which positively impact health. Nevertheless, few studies have focused on the effectiveness of viewing nature through windows on human health. This paper will summar...
Urban green spaces have been found as environments that contribute to stress reduction and mood change in several countries such as the West and Taiwan, however there are few studies on people's perception of the role of urban green space (UGS) in arid regions in Iran. In this study a survey was conducted among visitors of an urban park in the city...
Proper designs usually come from a sound concept, though some of Malaysian landscape design projects are carried out by disregarding their conceptual development. Therefore, concepts are not well defined and well-tied to their site contexts, which caused the final design products useless or misused. Although there Motloch (2001), Milburn and Brown...
In the landscape architecture design process, “concept” is important for providing uniqueness to a design. However, many landscape designers today do not rely on a well-defined concept, thus obstructing the development of their designs. This study aimed to identify the problems that Malaysian landscape designers face in developing a strong design c...
It is well-known that good designs come from well-developed concepts. However, some landscape design projects in Malaysia appear not to have welldefined concepts, rendering them useless and misused by the public. The purpose of this study was to identify the obstructions that occur in the practical design process that result in an underdeveloped, i...
Humans have always been fascinated by the landscape. Aspects of the landscape that are intriguing play an important role in people's preferences for landscapes. Since classical times philosophers such as Plato and Socrates, have made inquiries about aesthetics; and numerous theories have emerged. These theories can be categorized into two paradigms...
This study attempted to determine people's visual preference for urban landscapes in Malaysia. In an experimental study, 120 students from three departments in Universiti Putra Malaysia rated 4 predictors of preference (Coherence, complexity, legibility and mystery) and a criterion variable (preference) of 24 color slides depicting urban built land...
Unlike the West, where many studies have explored how people's needs are fulfilled by urban parks, Malaysia has received very little attention from researchers. One reason for this is the fact that Malaysia has only a short public park tradition. Although folk art and stories have chronicled a long history of gardens and other parks, these spaces w...