Factors that influence awareness towards the utilization of green space in Tasik Melati, Perlis / Nur Aisyah Syafiqah Mohd Shafie

Green space is an open space that often been used for leisure activities. This study measures the influence of awareness towards green spaces and various types of landscape design at Tasik Melati. This study focuses on the users of green spaces and the attitude, knowledge and activities that give si...

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Main Author: Mohd Shafie, Nur Aisyah Syafiqah
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/42168/1/42168.pdf
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/42168/
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Summary:Green space is an open space that often been used for leisure activities. This study measures the influence of awareness towards green spaces and various types of landscape design at Tasik Melati. This study focuses on the users of green spaces and the attitude, knowledge and activities that give significant to the awareness of green spaces especially in Kangar, Perlis. It was conducted to suggest that green space is vital to the urban or sub-urban cities. Tasik Melati has a small number of facilities and exercising tools or places to do activities because it was broken and not well maintained. However, the green areas are threatened by the growth of population. The research was run through questionnaires and distributed to the users of Tasik Melati as the respondents. The method that was used is snowball sampling and there were 150 respondents answered the questionnaires. For the data analysis in this research it used Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), frequency distribution, descriptive analysis, Cronbach’s Alpha, Pearson Correlation analysis and Regression analysis. The outcome of this study were a positive relationship between activities towards awareness of green spaces with the p-value 0.000. Meanwhile, there was a negative relationship between knowledge and attitude towards awareness of the green. From this research, the understanding on awareness of green spaces will be widened and the number of green space will increase. It is one of the important practices to promote the green spaces and the benefits of it to ensure the green spaces will be preserved.