“…Abdullah, 2003;Jaafar, 2004;Rainis & Noresah, 2004;Tahir & Roe, 2006;Samat, 2007;Lee, Lim, & Nor'Aini, 2008;Osman et al, 2008;Tan, Lim, MatJafri, & Abdullah 2009). On the other hand, studies which used GWR include modelling urban spatial structure Noresah and Rainis, (2009), analyzing land use change (Noresah, Gairola, & Talib, 2010), assessing the rental value of shop houses (Eboy, Ibrahim, & Buang, 2006) and examining the locational attributes effect on residential property values (Dziauddin & Idris, 2017). This indicates that studies on understanding the spatially varying relationship between urban growth patterns and determinants using the GWR approach in the Malaysian context are yet to be explored.…”