A sustainable city index for Malaysia

Choon, Shay Wei; Siwar, Chamhuri; Pereira, Joy Jacqueline; Jemain, Abdul Aziz; Hashim, Habibah; Hâdi, Abdul

doi:10.1080/13504509.2011.543012

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“…In contrast, master-planned developments (relatively large in scale) have to provide the necessary amenities as required by the planning standards. Sustainable urban development practice in our case developing country context of Malaysia is extensively reported in the literature [63][64][65][66][67][68]. Rather than repeating what have been already said, we focus on residential sustainability assessment in a case study location in Malaysia.…”

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Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment: Evaluating Residential Development Sustainability in a Developing Country Context

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Rapid urbanization, improved quality of life, and diversified lifestyle options have collectively led to an escalation in housing demand in our cities, where residential areas, as the largest portion of urban land use type, play a critical role in the formation of sustainable cities. To date there has been limited research to ascertain residential development layouts that provide a more sustainable urban outcome. This paper aims to evaluate and compare sustainability levels of residential types by focusing on their layouts. The paper scrutinizes three different development types in a developing country context-i.e., subdivision, piecemeal, and master-planned developments. This study develops a "Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment" tool and applies it to compare their sustainability levels in Ipoh, Malaysia. The analysis finds that the master-planned development, amongst the investigated case studies, possesses the potential to produce higher levels of sustainability outcomes. The results reveal insights and evidence for policymakers, planners, development agencies and researchers; advocate further studies on neighborhood-level sustainability analysis, and; emphasize the need for collective efforts and an effective process in achieving neighborhood sustainability and sustainable city formation.

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Section: Overview Of Residential Development In the Case Study Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment: Evaluating Residential Development Sustainability in a Developing Country Context

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“…The urban sustainability index is a useful tool to determine the sustainable progress of city and guide the urban managers, how to develop the conditions conducive to the sustainability [19]. Several studies have been conducted all over the world to evaluate the sustainability and indicator selection criteria.…”

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“…Balachandra and Sudhakara Reddy assessed the sustainability indicators to identify the pattern of urban development in Mumbai and Bangalore, India and compared these metropolitan cities with London [21]. Choon et al, developed the sustainable city index with reference to Malaysia and incorporated indicators into the index to evaluate urban sustainability [19]. Lu et al, developed 22 indicators that grouped into social, environmental and economic subsystem to assess the sustainability of 15 typical resource-based cities in northeast China [22].…”

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Evaluation of Developmental Progress in Some Cities of Punjab, Pakistan, Using Urban Sustainability Indicators

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Sustainable urbanization is a challenge to human beings in the modern era of technology. Cities all over the world are facing several problems due to urbanization and industrialization. Urban problems could be assessed through development of indices of urban sustainability on the basis of its three dimensions: environment, economics and social. The present study was conducted to identify indicators to develop indices for assessment of sustainability in some populated cities of Punjab. The study focused on the indicators based on environmental, economic and social development to develop a rational indicator system on the basis of secondary data collected from 2004 to 2014. A total of 40 indicators were identified to assess the urban sustainability progress in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, Gujranwala and Faisalabad cities. The result of the sub-indices indicated that poor performance was evident in the environmental sector, rather than in the economic and social sectors. The cities scored between 0.27 and 0.58 in environmental dimensions, showing a decreasing trend from 2004 to 2014. The declining trend of indices was due to population influx, rapid urbanization, reduction in green areas, industrialization, high level of atmospheric and water pollutants. In case of the economic sector, an increasing trend was observed which indicates the gradual improvement in living standards of people. In the social dimensions of the indicator system, less variations were observed among the cities and ranged between 0.49 and 0.58. Overall, the results of the urban sustainability index showed score was ranges between 0.41 to 0.52. None of the Punjab cities attained the position as a sustainable city (0.75) Lahore (0.52) and Faisalabad (0.52) were ranked as moderately sustainable cities, whereas, Rawalpindi (0.48), Gujranwala (0.47) and Multan (0.41) were ranked as weak sustainable cities. The study highlighted that the urban sustainability indicator system could be useful to determine the existing sustainability in cities of the developing countries for better resource management practices.

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“…Moreover, it is part of European Union policy to achieve a high level of health and environmental protection, and one of the objectives to be pursued is sustainable development (Steurera & Bergerb, 2011). One solution appears to rest in the use of utility tunnels as a more sustainable technique (Canto-Perello & Curiel-Esparza, 2006;Choon et al, 2011). Utility tunnels can house the full range of electric power, water, communications, heating lines, gas and other public services.…”

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Criticality and threat analysis on utility tunnels for planning security policies of utilities in urban underground space

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ElsevierCantó Perelló, J.; Curiel Esparza, J.; Calvo Peña, V. (2013). Criticality and threat analysis on utility tunnels for planning security policies of utilities in urban underground space. Expert Systems with Applications. 40 (11) AbstractA utility tunnel is defined as an underground structure containing one or more utilities, permitting the installation, maintenance and removal of the systems without the necessity of making street cuts or excavations. These underground facilities contain all essential utilities serving large urban areas collected together in a tunnel; therefore they are an inviting target for sabotage or vandalism. This paper proposes an expert system combining color-coded scales, Delphi and AHP methods to analyze criticality and threats on utility tunnels to support planning of security policies for utilities in urban subsurface.

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A sustainable city index for Malaysia

Cited by 54 publications

References 11 publications

Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment: Evaluating Residential Development Sustainability in a Developing Country Context

Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment: Evaluating Residential Development Sustainability in a Developing Country Context

Evaluation of Developmental Progress in Some Cities of Punjab, Pakistan, Using Urban Sustainability Indicators

Criticality and threat analysis on utility tunnels for planning security policies of utilities in urban underground space

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