Smart Growth Community
Abstract
Living a healthy lifestyle is the biggest concern in creating a smart growth community in Malaysia. Towards building the community, the involvement of landscape architects who are capable and skillful in varies of aspects such as planning and designing is one the needs in visualising a smart growth community into reality. But through the process of creating it, there are few challenges that landscape architects in Malaysia should face and as for making it into reality, landscape architects need to overcome problems and challenges towards building a smart growth community in Malaysia.
1. Introduction
Urbanization, globalization and the spread of materialism have provided an opportunity for landscape architecture profession to address these problems in the coming decades. To overcome these problems, landscape architects’ contribution towards building a healthy and clean environment is essential.
Therefore, Malaysia’s government encourages that metropolitan areas in Malaysia should consider the smart growth community strategies to address growth issues. Through smart growth approaches, enhanced neighborhoods, preserved natural lands and critical environmental areas, are the ways creating a vibrant area. With a touch of a landscape architect in implement the smart growth’s principle, urban sprawl and excessive usage of land can be reduce.
Therefore, this paper explains on the role landscape architects in contributing a smart growth community in Malaysia and the challenges towards implementing the principles of smart growth community into our country.
2. The role of Landscape Architects in Malaysia.
Landscape architect in Malaysia conduct research and advise on planning, design and stewardship of the outdoor environment and spaces, both within and beyond the built environment and its conservation and sustainability of development (Rahimah, 2009).
She adds, landscape architects who are capable and
Living a healthy lifestyle is the biggest concern in creating a smart growth community in Malaysia. Towards building the community, the involvement of landscape architects who are capable and skillful in varies of aspects such as planning and designing is one the needs in visualising a smart growth community into reality. But through the process of creating it, there are few challenges that landscape architects in Malaysia should face and as for making it into reality, landscape architects need to overcome problems and challenges towards building a smart growth community in Malaysia.
1. Introduction
Urbanization, globalization and the spread of materialism have provided an opportunity for landscape architecture profession to address these problems in the coming decades. To overcome these problems, landscape architects’ contribution towards building a healthy and clean environment is essential.
Therefore, Malaysia’s government encourages that metropolitan areas in Malaysia should consider the smart growth community strategies to address growth issues. Through smart growth approaches, enhanced neighborhoods, preserved natural lands and critical environmental areas, are the ways creating a vibrant area. With a touch of a landscape architect in implement the smart growth’s principle, urban sprawl and excessive usage of land can be reduce.
Therefore, this paper explains on the role landscape architects in contributing a smart growth community in Malaysia and the challenges towards implementing the principles of smart growth community into our country.
2. The role of Landscape Architects in Malaysia.
Landscape architect in Malaysia conduct research and advise on planning, design and stewardship of the outdoor environment and spaces, both within and beyond the built environment and its conservation and sustainability of development (Rahimah, 2009).
She adds, landscape architects who are capable and
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