Design Pre-thesis 1 | Social and Cultural Regeneration of Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur

The community and a place established a close relationship in creating the identity of an urban area. The community, which is the people, give meaning to the place through the cultural and social reflection where it creates the quality of the place where all built environment elements are associated with meanings as defined by the people. Social and cultural reflections of a place develop sensitivity to certain elements making it to become more meaningful, noticeable and improve placemaking. In the concept of ‘Urban Village’, built environment approach will introduced the means of transforming the urban area into a place with community, cultural and social significance.