Parks, open spacesor green areas could improve people's quality of life and enhance the city's environmental quality.This paper reviews current thinking about the benefits of parks, examines the criteria on park values and describes some of the strategies and the applicability of these strategies in park planning. Employing Q-methodology in getting public opinion on issues relevant to the research will increase awareness among the local community groups to preserve the values and amenities of the park and its environmental setting. The outcome of this research offers essential insights on the preferences and community values towards successful urban parks.

This study is conducted to evaluate the level of performance of recreational activities in selected urban parks. The objective of the study is to measure the comparative standard and performance of selected urban parks and the measure user’s perceptions and expectations of the quality of the products and services received by using Visitor Services Quality gap (VSQ gap) and Spider Web analysis. The case studies include two different urban parks in the vicinity of Klang Valley area, which are KLCC Park in Kuala Lumpur and Setia Alam Park in Setia Alam. Several criteria of standard, performance, the quality of the products and services that could contribute to the better performance of urban park have been identified.

Tourism becomes a human need lately in the busy modern urban lifestyle. Recreational and stress reliever destinations influence human personal health condition. The Government of DKI Jakarta establishes 12 coastal tourism destinations in North Jakarta, recently. However, the destinations are not well developed and integrated with the transportation. Moreover, they confront the tidal flood threats. In Marunda, North Jakarta, there are 2 potential tourism attractions that had been abandon and misused as ships parking and docks. Those conditions undervalue the land use and needs to be redesigned properly for the community benefits. Design analysis with the criteria of resilience to climate change response to the sea level rise, is used an approach to the problems. This research covers the responsive designs to solve the coastal flood and optimizing the land use as tourism destination.

Managers and planners may offer many recreational opportunities at the urban park but it does always depend on the users as to how they actually perceived the opportunities. These have been affecting their value system and influenced their attitude towards the setting. This study aimed to understand the value of urban park as perceived by three different stakeholders group linked to the urban park setting for urban park planning and management strategies. The application of Q methodology in this study was able to solve the diversity of interests among stakeholders by considering the fact that individual's opinions may be different from each other. The concourse used in this study based on the Malaysian Planning Guideline for Open Space and Recreation (2010) to explore the urban park setting that delivering the values. Then, Q sample photos were chosen to represent five elements in the urban park setting that are accessibility and traffic system, recreation facilities, landscape element, park furniture and other facilities. The photos were presented during Q sorting process and respondents were asked to sort the photos based on the questions given. Data analysis process was done using PQ method software that applied factor analysis technique and four values were produced which are natural value, sense of ownership and comfort value, recreational and health value and lastly, social value. This information was linked to the certain urban park setting for the improvement of urban park planning and management strategies for urban park. Keywords: urban park, urban park values, community planning, Q methodology, urban park stakeholders, urban park planning, urban park management.