Best Management Practices in urban park management by the Kuala Lumpur Federal Authority, Malaysia
Park visitation is a popular recreational activity among urban residents. These attractions are related to park’s products such as park’s facilities, services and programs that enable visitors to enjoy their visit and have memorable experience. This research investigates urban parks management is...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/120626/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/120626/1/120626.pdf |
| Summary: | Park visitation is a popular recreational activity among urban residents. These
attractions are related to park’s products such as park’s facilities, services and
programs that enable visitors to enjoy their visit and have memorable experience.
This research investigates urban parks management issues. Therefore, the
purposes of this research are to identify and understand the management issues
that occurs in mostly urban parks as well as to determine the proper management
that will associated with best practices to be adopt in order to justify a safe and
first-class environment in an urban park. The study’s aim is to identify and analyse
the Strategic Framework in Integrating “Best Management Practices” (BMP) for
urban park in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
As stated in National Landscape Policy action plans under Thrust 3 Strategy 3.2
“Encourage Manageable and Sustainable Landscape Development Programs in
Order to Achieve Beautiful Garden Nation”. A good management in maintaining
the urban parks is to provide a holistic path towards a better-quality living
environment. It is an important initiative towards an effective quality of life by
providing safe, healthy and clean landscape. Urban park is a valuable asset. Its
preservation and maintenance contribute directly to the environment and socioeconomic
development. The strategic approach and method for this research is
by recognizing the existing urban park management principles that are available.
This research used a qualitative method approached. The data collection will be
collected through interview with selected respondents such as academician,
landscape architects, botanists, park managers, expertise and local authority. In
executing the interview process, the researcher had chosen the semi-structured
open-ended questions, in-depth interview method and conducted by site
observation to evaluate the BMP performance and validate the written documents.
The findings from this study will enabled park management to identify the BMP that
represent the overall urban park management towards sustainability in Kuala
Lumpur. The result of the study show that application of BMP is the key to improve
the management efficiency and practicality of urban park. At the end of the
research, several recommendations of BMP for urban parks in Kuala Lumpur have
been put forward as mitigation measures in order to sustain, to plan strategies and
way forward towards first-class landscape management. |
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