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Establishing Performance Indicators from the User Perspective as Tools to Evaluate the Safety Aspects of Urban Parks in Kuala Lumpur

Sreetheran Maruthaveeran

Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, Volume 18, Issue 2, September 2010

Keywords: Crime, environmental psychology, Garden Nation, green space, safe city

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In the excitement of transforming Malaysia as Garden Nation through planting trees and establishing public parks around the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, special attention should be given particularly in providing a safe urban environment. This is in line with the National Urbanisation Policy and Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2020. However, this cannot be implemented without setting measurable standards of quality. Therefore, a survey was conducted to develop performance indicators from the safety aspect for the urban parks in Kuala Lumpur. A total of 420 park users from three urban parks of Kuala Lumpur were randomly interviewed based on a detailed questionnaire designed. Fifteen indicators were developed and these were further grouped into three strategies according to the "Safe City Programme": public awareness, physical planning and design and target hardening.

ISSN 0128-7680

e-ISSN 2231-8526

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JSSH-0083-2009

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