Standards approach is conventionally used to attain consistency and certainty in urban green space planning. It has been widely used in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia since 1920. However, in 1970s, the standards approach received wide criticism and some questioned the relevancy of the approach in high density cities. Most of the local authorities that faced development pressures often failed to achieve the standards due to limited urban spaces and land scarcity. In Malaysia, the National Urbanization Policy has set the standards of 2 hectares per 1000 population by the year 2020. However, due to high urbanization rate and increased densification, some cities, particularly Kuala Lumpur and Penang, are facing difficulties in achieving the target specified in the policy. Therefore, this paper attempts to review the broad literature on the implementation of urban green space provision using the standards approach, the issues and challenges of its implementation in urban green space planning from Malaysian perspectives.
The rooftop garden is a part of sustainable development aspirations that modifies the modern landscape and has growing potential in property markets worldwide. However, it is considered new in Malaysia. Although this development is growing especially in the urban areas such as Klang Valley, the contribution of this concept is only seen as an addition to the open space provision for property development with limited land area. Considering this situation, this study attempts to examine the current growth of this concept particularly in Iskandar Malaysia. Twenty property developers have been selected and interviewed and the results have been analyzed qualitatively. Among the property developers, 11 of them have included the rooftop garden concept in 14 of their service apartment projects. Based on the interview, this preference was driven by their awareness of the benefits of the rooftop garden to the environment and occupants. Meanwhile, the non-preference of the other nine developers on this concept was due to the development costs that may indirectly affect property price. The outcome of this study concludes that the development of the rooftop garden concept is growing steadily in Malaysia. However, high cost in its development and maintenance has become one of the major barriers of its implementation and expansion in Malaysia.
The concept of smart home is a rising trend within the housing industry in Malaysia. With the advance of technology, homeowners are able to control and monitor their home through the smartphone or other networked device. However, it was discovered that Malaysians are highly reluctant in adopting smart home concept and similar Internet of Things (IoT). Within the smart home market, there were cases where potential home buyer may be unaware of the technology, thus hinder its adoption and further development. This research aims to investigate the awareness of potential home buyers specifically among the young millennials on smart home concept; perception on the factors influencing them to buy and key features that they will consider in buying a smart home. Questionnaire survey has been conducted and descriptive analysis has been used to analyse the data. Findings showed that the knowledge on smart home concept is still low among the target population. Respondents with the intention to buy smart home has chosen ‘saving energy, time and money’ as the main factor influencing while ‘wireless lighting system’ as the key features that taken into consideration. These findings may encourage the adoption of the smart home concept among the Millennia Generation in Malaysia and therefore intensify its development in the future.
Maintenance and Operation Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia was established to ensure local authority immovable asset maintenance management is in line with Government Asset Management Policy 2009. This paper deals with investigation on the challenges in the implementation of Maintenance and Operation Blueprint Plan for Iskandar Malaysia among five local authorities in Iskandar Malaysia. A total of 25 respondents have been selected and interviewed. The data have been analyzed qualitatively. Base on the interview, the results show that there are challenges to implement maintenance and operation blueprint in local authority immovable asset maintenance management which are no clear direction from the top management to implement the Maintenance and Operation Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia, lack of staff to implement the Maintenance and Operation Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia, did not have enough time to implement the Maintenance and Operation Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia and the high cost required to implement the Maintenance and Operation Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia. This article can serve as a foundation for future studies in critical success factors to implement immovable asset maintenance and operation blueprint. A future study investigating critical success factors to implement immovable asset maintenance and operation blueprint would be very interesting to produce a new approach for successful blueprint implementation.
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