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Johor Bahru local development plan: a preliminary content analysis for housing sector

In Malaysia, the Regional and Town Planning Act 1976 emphasizes the need for a development plan system as a control mechanism for the usage of land. A development plan system involves a Local Plan whereby the function of the system is to plan, to control and to drive a development at the district le...

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Main Authors: Mohamad, Thuraiya, Alias, Buang
Format: Book Section
Published: Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ 2009
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GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12913/
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spelling my.utm.129132017-10-04T06:26:00Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12913/ Johor Bahru local development plan: a preliminary content analysis for housing sector Mohamad, Thuraiya Alias, Buang GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography In Malaysia, the Regional and Town Planning Act 1976 emphasizes the need for a development plan system as a control mechanism for the usage of land. A development plan system involves a Local Plan whereby the function of the system is to plan, to control and to drive a development at the district level. Therefore, any party who wish to a start housing development must initially make reference to a local plan. In other words, a developer must refer to a local plan to ensure that a future and an upcoming housing development fulfill the requirement set out by the local plan. However, a question arises whether or not a local plan could possibly give sufficient information and thereafter, able to assist a developer to identify whether or not the particular land is ready and suitable for housing development. Thus, the main objective of this research, particularly for housing sectors is to identify the sufficiency of the local plan contents and whether a completed local plan encompasses all aspects of the needed information. In other to achieve the objective, the method of content analysis was used to analyse contents of Johor Bahru Local Development Plan 2002-2020 as a sample. Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ 2009 Book Section PeerReviewed Mohamad, Thuraiya and Alias, Buang (2009) Johor Bahru local development plan: a preliminary content analysis for housing sector. In: Proceedings Of The First International Postgraduate Conference On Infrastructure And Environment. Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, China, pp. 272-280. ISBN 978-988-17311-2-8
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topic GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
spellingShingle GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
Mohamad, Thuraiya
Alias, Buang
Johor Bahru local development plan: a preliminary content analysis for housing sector
description In Malaysia, the Regional and Town Planning Act 1976 emphasizes the need for a development plan system as a control mechanism for the usage of land. A development plan system involves a Local Plan whereby the function of the system is to plan, to control and to drive a development at the district level. Therefore, any party who wish to a start housing development must initially make reference to a local plan. In other words, a developer must refer to a local plan to ensure that a future and an upcoming housing development fulfill the requirement set out by the local plan. However, a question arises whether or not a local plan could possibly give sufficient information and thereafter, able to assist a developer to identify whether or not the particular land is ready and suitable for housing development. Thus, the main objective of this research, particularly for housing sectors is to identify the sufficiency of the local plan contents and whether a completed local plan encompasses all aspects of the needed information. In other to achieve the objective, the method of content analysis was used to analyse contents of Johor Bahru Local Development Plan 2002-2020 as a sample.
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author Mohamad, Thuraiya
Alias, Buang
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Alias, Buang
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title Johor Bahru local development plan: a preliminary content analysis for housing sector
title_short Johor Bahru local development plan: a preliminary content analysis for housing sector
title_full Johor Bahru local development plan: a preliminary content analysis for housing sector
title_fullStr Johor Bahru local development plan: a preliminary content analysis for housing sector
title_full_unstemmed Johor Bahru local development plan: a preliminary content analysis for housing sector
title_sort johor bahru local development plan: a preliminary content analysis for housing sector
publisher Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ
publishDate 2009
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12913/
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