Quality of life is the main interest for people nowadays. Live in safe place with strong spatial economical will bring city liveable and among valuable assets in a city. Many innovations in town planning and design have been launched with great optimism over the years to addressing the people’s concern including crime reduction. High development in city nowadays will minimize the visual capability that can seriously cause fear of crime. Many studies proved that man-made and natural environment affect the visibility degree thus affect the crime. With the emphasizing of physical environmental such as contour, trees, and building height into the space visibility analysis could inherent the actual and real-time phenomenon. Isovist and Visibility Graph Analysis (VGA) could be methods to evaluate the visibility in environmental space. Thus, proposed approach which consider the evaluation of visibility in 2D and 3D with incorporate the movement pattern will allow the evaluation based on the human visual perspective.
Systematic healthcare facilities and accessibility system in developing countries are mostly located in urban areas instead of rural areas, causing inconvenience to low-and-middle-income residents to reach healthcare centres. Therefore, an innovative mapping and geomobile application or app is developed for the modernization of healthcare systems in Pulau Indah, Klang Malaysia. This study aimed to provide relevant geoinformation of the healthcare centres and the optimum route to the nearby healthcare facilities. Data collection comprised of road access, lists of healthcare facilities, the type of healthcare facilities, travelling time, cost, as well as base map from Google Earth. The framework of geospatial functions and System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) were implemented to create the proposed system. Survey on 45 respondents revealed that 80% of them are displeased with the existing system performances. Thus, the proposed healthcare accessibility system has created eminent geospatial modules and cartographic elements to intensify the existing system. This personal app system also offers several spatial network analyses to assist the local community in finding the optimum accessibility to reach ideal healthcare centres. Inclusively, seven selected local communities agreed with the functions proposed in this system but there are several parts can be further improved.
Streets and physical layouts can be inherent in a sustainable city by emphasizing the use of space with planned strategies by promoting the movement of people and social behaviors for enhancing an economic structure. An analysis of the space layout is beneficial for defining the urban areas that can affect street behavior. A GIS incorporated with a space syntax can help to propagate the effectiveness of a spatial analysis in a study on urban spaces. The integration of the computational pieces of both a GIS analytical tool and space syntax parameters will stimulate research oriented urban systems and spatial morphologies combined with a spatial database. However, the development of livability can be affected by a set of parameters that define the used space. Thus, this paper was aimed at examining the space syntax parameters for space visualization to evaluate street behavior using the GIS processing and space syntax methods. In this study, a spatial analysis was used to generate spatial information on traffic volume, while a space syntax was used to test the street behavior. Also, a predictive analysis was conducted to identify the correlation between traffic behavior and a set of parameters. The results showed that integration and direct visibility were significant to the traffic volume. Most of the streets that were linked to the commercial area showed high integration and direct visibility, which increased by more than half, compared with the unlinked areas. Based on the statistical analysis, both parameters recorded aprobability of less than 5%. The results showed that any space designed with a continuous, direct and clear traffic volume will lead to increased integration and direct visibility, thus influencing a natural vehicle movement.
The distribution of crime is not uniform across either time or space and believed influenced by environmental design. This study examines the layout and identifies the risky space in a residential area of Kuala Lumpur. Four space syntax parameters and three years of burglary data analysed across two neighbourhoods. The correlation between the burglary rate and the parameter value carried out to identify the relationship. Results show a significant relationship between visibility parameter and burglary rate while there were similarities temporal patterns for both study areas. Results help planners and authorities to prevent crime through environmental design.Keywords: residential burglary; space syntax; natural surveillance; crime pattern eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BYNC-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) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v4i12.1908
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