TASK 8: URBAN RENEWAL Kajang has transformed itself from a small old town to a big modern town by designing

and developing new township such as Bandar Baru Bangi and Bandar Seri Putra as well as extending its CBD (central business district) such as extension to Sungai Chua. However, its centre is inadequately transformed and most of its residences are working in Kuala Lumpur and other external areas. Write your vision and plan for Kajang to transform its town centre and to be a self reliance town. You may use sketches to enhance your vision and plan. SOLUTION: Vision: Focuses on the form of the city and the efficiency of the distribution of human activities within it, making optimal use of the infrastructure of the city, particularly transport infrastructure, through compact, mixed-use and dense settlement structures enabling effective use of public transport and non car-based movement systems and minimising vehicular movements. Aim: ensures the strategic location of new developments in relation to the natural environment and transport systems Plans: 1. Integrating transport and development A good traffic management is aimed to optimizing the existing infrastructure and improving the flow capacity at the city. Additional measures such as traffic signage, pavement line ensures development is mixed and of appropriate density Creating beautiful, healthy and socially integrated and inclusive places promotes equitable economic development conserves land looks at towns and cities in relation to one another and their hinterlands

marking and barrier should be used for the road safety. Here are some strategies that can be applied in Kajang City centre: i. Redirecting the movement pattern of using the private transport to the public transport and also improving the service for public transport such as subway, busses and taxi. ii. Upgrading the road systems by widening and implementing the smart grid system for the transportation systems. iii. We also suggest making a new Bus Rapid Transit Systems (BRT): BRT is a high performance of public transportation bus service that combines the bus lanes with high quality bus station. The organizational, structure and technological advances of the BRT system are the main factor to increase the efficiency and speed of the buses. Traffic light will be delayed for oncoming buses. It will decrease the amount of time between stops. A part from that, a computer chip inside the bus signal will sensor on the road. Then, it will alert the passengers at the next station if the bus running on time. Besides, fair is paid by using prepaid systems. So it can reduce the waiting time at bus stop and waiting platform are elevated to allow for quicker entry and exit to the bus. After that, the busses will travel in their own lanes which keep the bus system independent to the congested traffic. iv. We also suggest having a metro system in Kajang: in kajang, we preferred to have subway or underground metro systems. It is because, we can minimizing the usage of the land use. A part from that, by using subway we can reduce the emission of carbon monoxide and also reducing the noise pollution in the city. This metro system is an electric passanger transport system with high capacity and high frequency of services that totally independent from other traffic, road or pedestrian. The location of the subway connecting the residential area to the commercial area at the centre of the city and also to the Sungai Langat region. This Subway also linkage to Balakong which is industrial area. 2. Waste management i. Recycling A proposal to place an environmentally friendly Recycling Centre focusing on reusing todays household or domestic waste materials to preserve tomorrows resources and to promote recycle in our city. They are green, reduce energy wastage and the most important thing is they are fully functional as well as any other

building. The aim of this recycling centre is to minimize natural resource use while enhancing social and economic benefits. It is designed to increase the understanding and appreciation of the environment among the public. The design approach of this project is to produce an environmental aware community by exposing them to the process and the importance of recycling. Interactive space among public and learning space to educate the public are the main concern of the project. Therefore, the space program will be designed for interaction and education purposed.Thus, a recycling center should be more than a recycling center in or to promote and educate the community about recycling. In this project, the recycling center should hold a commercial area selling recycled product, a place for monthly junk yard sale for the community to trade or exchange their unwanted useable house hold or furniture, a gallery and even a cafe. ii. Landfill Provide a landfill to dump the excess waste from household and commercial area. Sanitary landfills are sites where waste is isolated from the environment until it is safe. It is considered when it has completely degraded biologically, chemically and physically. In high-income countries, the level of isolation achieved may be high. There are financial and other benefits to sites with long operating lifetimes. Landfill sites to sanitary status will also help in capturing the bio-gas as a source of renewable energy. As we know that, landfill will generate main gases that are methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide. Capturing and positive utilization of the biogas is not only environmentally beneficial but also economically attractive. The methane gases produce naturally from landfill site. The main gases from methane can convert to energy then convert to electricity. So, we can produce our own electricity from the landfill without have any cost. 3. Renewable energy Solar Power Plant Energy supplies for our entire city are solar power farm. This kind of renewable energy has many advantages than disadvantages. To make our city become the sustainable environment, we have to provide this thing of energy supply. The major advantage of solar power is that no pollution is created in the process of generating electricity. Environmentally it the most Clean and Green energy. Solar Energy is clean, renewable and sustainable, helping to protect our environment.

4. Proposed development for kajang city i. Langat River Basin Project River Of Life Part II. We suggest continuing project river of life part II at Langat River. The objective of this project is to transform the Langat River into a vibrant and liveable waterfront with high economic value. This transformation is divided into three components that are river cleaning, beautification and river development. a. River cleaning. The objective of the River Cleaning is to clean and improve the water quality from its current Class III until Class V water quality that not suitable for body contact transform to Class IIb that suitable for body contact recreational usage. b. Beautification. The objective of the River Beautification is to beautify the river to increase the economic vialibility of the area. c. River development. The beautification works will spur economic investments into the areas immediately surrounding the river corridor. To catalyse development along the corridor, potential government land will be identified and tendered out to private developers through competitive bidding. This project may increase the monthly income for this city cause of the beautification and the development. The beautification of the river and the development beside the river can be as tourist attraction for this city. ii. New Building Development a. Business Hall Kajang Business Hall will join several other governments and private developers that have constructed green roofs as a way of capturing greenhouse gases, easing water runoff and potentially lowering building energy costs. Green roofs is located on a roof below the business incubation centres overhead walkway, the greenery has become an attractive place for workers to relax. The green roofs insulation has abilities and impact on energy costs. b. Hotel budget It doesnt take a luxurious property or budget to build in sustainabili ty, but the Riverview Hotel is a strong example of how luxury and green building can work hand in hand in the hospitality industry. The design of the hotel will decreasing the hotels environmental footprint by reducing waste and promoting energy and water

efficiency.The hotels are unique because of the high volume of individual guest rooms, each of which requires its own supply of energy and water known as compartmentalization even when the room is empty. To combat wastefulness, the project team installed individual guest room controls which setback the

heating ventilation and air conditioning system and turn off the lights when rooms are unoccupied. Another cool feature of the hotel is its U-shaped design, facing out toward the beach. Not only does this intelligent use of passive-solar design maximize ocean views and breezes for hotel guests, but it also increases the amount of natural daylight entering common areas and guest rooms. This reduces the need for artificial lighting and creates a healthier indoor environment for guests. All in all, a look at the Riverview Hotels sustainability efforts reveals multiple takeaways for prospective green hotels c. Conventional Center The concept of this building is zero carbon footprint. There, things take a turn for the higher-technology that sophisticated heating and cooling systems that that use minimal amounts of juice, all linked up to a central computer that monitors environmental conditions in real time and adjusts electricity consumption accordingly. When the building is stuffed with guests, it even traps their radiating heat and water vapor to be stored for later use.

Proposed Arrangement of Development in Kajang City using concept Masjid Centred