The Landscape Strategies and Usage of Laman Tun Perak as a Pocket Park in Kuala Lumpur

Abstract

Pocket parks emerged as a rational solution to allow access to urban parks within the constraint of limited space. Although small in scale, they are treated as valuable urban green and community assets. Attention and studies on pocket parks are rare, especially in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hence, the research explores and attempts to determine the landscape strategies of Laman Tun Perak and identify how the pocket park is being utilised. Observation, field notetaking, drawings analysis, and interview are methods employed. The research concluded that the landscape strategies of a pocket park are connectivity and permeability, safety, comfort, and activities. Keywords: landscape strategies; Laman Tun Perak; pocket park; urban green space eISSN 2514-751X ©2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians, Africans, Arabians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ajebs.v6i20.398