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  1. SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES Malaysia face similar global challenges where cities should provide opportunities for all with access to basic services, housing, energy and transportation. Malaysia largely excels in providing access to water in urban areas (except for Kelantan) and have many of its local authorities planning the cities with consideration of population growth (with the ...

    • Urban Economic Growth Centres and Employment
    • Social Effects of Urban Growth, Inequality, and Urban Poverty
    • Ill-Effects on Rural Areas
    • Cities Are Centres For Crime
    • Health Issues
    • Urban Growth and Housing
    • Urban Growth and Environment

    Cities, as generators of income growth contributing to national output and employment, are also centres of commerce, culture, education, and government. Businesses tend to operate more in cities than in rural areas. Large cities are usually identified with dynamic growth centres for production and consumption of goods and industries that are suppor...

    The rural to urban migration causes serious problems to city managers who have to continuously manage and provide the required needs for these migrants. With various tiers of government located within the same locality, there exists disharmony in the role and scope of each tiers of government here. Each tier attempts to outdo the other causing disr...

    Like in other international cities, rural to urban migration and foreign in-migration also invite crime that has become a menace in urban centres in Malaysia. Migration has caused some small towns to be abandoned as youngsters flock to urban centres leaving their old parents to mend paddy fields, which are eventually abandoned due to old age. Some ...

    Faced with the challenges in lifestyle of urban dwellers and those who flocked to urban centres, a number in the city turn to street crime to earn a fast living, some even threatening the lives of others. However, the Malaysian Royal Police have claimed that crime rates have lowered over the years. Such crimes are said to involve Malaysian citizens...

    The prevalence of mental disorders in urban areas was 80.8% as compared to 48.9% in rural areas (Reddy & Chandrasekhar, 1998) which was largely associated with urbanization (Srivastava, 2009). Environmental degradation also causes more impact on the urban dwellers than rural residents. Given the larger proportion of residents in urban areas, it wou...

    With rural–urban migration comes the issue of housing, especially for the poor and those with low income. In the Ninth Malaysia Plan, 80% of the houses were built by the private sector but these targeted the middle and upper-income groups. The poor and the less fortunate have had their houses built by the public sector or the private sector by mean...

    Cities are good consumers of resources, including food, water, supplies, and agriculture products which are produced by the hinterland. Each Malaysian consumes about 226 L of water per day, a figure that is higher than their neighbours in the region—90 L in Thailand, 130 L in Indonesia, and 155 L in Singapore. With rapid urbanization comes its detr...

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  3. Jun 8, 2023 · Malaysia’s urban context and challenges “Malaysia is one of the most urbanised countries in the Asia-Pacific, with more than 75 per cent of its total population living in urban areas. The urban population will continue to increase in the next years, especially in smaller cities and urbanisation is to reach 80 per cent by 2030.

  4. Malaysia has experienced this kind of rapid socio-economic development, and as of 2010, had the fourth-largest area of built-up land in East Asia. The Kuala Lumpur urban area is the eighth-largest in the region—larger than some megacity urban areas like Jakarta, Manila, and Seoul—despite its smaller population [2].

  5. Sep 26, 2023 · Among these challenges, the scarcity of green spaces within and near urban neighbourhood areas stands out as a key concern. The unequal development of neighbourhoods across various cities and states in Malaysia is a multifaceted issue driven by complex factors including historical background, economic, policy and cultural dimensions.

  6. World Bank Reimbursable Advisory Service Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience Global Practice November 2015 Achieving a System of Competitive Cities in Malaysia

  7. Kuala Lumpur (KL), the capital and most populous city of Malaysia, has a population of 1.67 million [1]. The Greater Kuala Lumpur region, which includes the city and nine surrounding municipalities, is significantly larger, as shown in Figure 1. The population of Greater Kuala Lumpur increased from approximately 3.1 million in 1990 to 5.96 ...

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