FORMULATION OF URBAN REGENERATION POLICY FRAMEWORK IN MALAYSIA 

  FORMULATION OF URBAN REGENERATION POLICY FRAMEWORK IN MALAYSIA

 Sabariah Eni1, David Martin Juanil1, Fazian Hashim1, Tahir Sabit Mohamed2, Muhammad Najib Mohamed Razali3,

Nurul Hana Adi Maimun3, Afifuddin Husairi Hussain5

1Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

2International Islamic University Malaysia

3Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

5Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

ABSTRACT

This research study has its roots when globally, cities has evolving towards its maturity stage, hence creating urban decline resulted into deprived economic, physical, social and environmental. Apart from the market driven that shaped up urban regeneration and development in the country or cities, most government and stakeholders is thinking on what is the best approach for sustainable urban regeneration or redevelopment process in Malaysia; and how to understand the real situation on what is urban regeneration. Two successful focus group discussions (FGD) among the subject matter expert (SME) uncovers the real `case for change’ scenarios and hence needs for urban regeneration policy.

Mooted from the idea, the researcher organised the first Focus Group Discussion, conducted at INSPEN involving 11 subject matter expert (SME), stakeholders from various government agencies from JPBD and local authority; and private firms including planners and property developers.  The main objective from the FGD-1 is to understand the real urban regeneration strategy for Malaysia. Since there is no concrete approach on urban regeneration policy in Malaysia, it is timely for the policy maker, stakeholders and academic to look into this research. The outcome from the FGD-1 is: identifying the vision and mission on urban regeneration in Malaysia as well as sets the variables for `case for change’ for urban regeneration policy.

Follow suit the FGD-1 outcomes, researcher go in-depth by organising focus group discussion 2 (FGD-2) with a theme of ‘Humanising urban regeneration in Kuala Lumpur City Center’. The themes were derived from the outcome of FGD-1 comprising 10 themes (based on Interim Report 2 & 3). There are 22 subject matter expert (after this referred as respondents) representing local authority, Government Agencies, Urban Design Consultant, Property Consultant, Property Developer, Architect and Academician. The deliverable output is based on ‘where are we today’, ‘what we aspire to be’ in term of urban regeneration/redevelopment practices in Malaysia. The respondents were divided into four groups discussing these 10 (ten) main themes (that derived from FGD-1), such as:

                           i.          Sustainable Infrastructures

                          ii.          Affordable Housing

                         iii.          Economic Regeneration

                        iv.          Urban Heritage

                          v.          Land Law and Regulatory

                        vi.          Sustainable development - New Urban Agenda

                       vii.          Cities 4.0 and Urban design

                      viii.          Urban Well-being and Community

                        ix.          Urban Solid Waste Management

The final outcome conceptualised the 10 strategies and 35 action plans in regard to formulation of urban regeneration policy framework in Malaysia. This research proposed recommendations for future research on urban regeneration.