{"id":16761,"date":"2015-08-19T15:39:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T07:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/?p=16761"},"modified":"2015-08-19T15:39:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T07:39:39","slug":"dr-wahid-urban-planners-must-cater-for-population-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/2015\/08\/19\/dr-wahid-urban-planners-must-cater-for-population-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Wahid: Urban Planners Must Cater for Population Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16762\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/235\/files\/2015\/08\/mets_dz_1708_p2_dz_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16762\" class=\"wp-image-16762\" src=\"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/235\/files\/2015\/08\/mets_dz_1708_p2_dz_1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: The Star\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: The Star<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">JOHOR BARU: Long-term planning is needed to ensure that urban areas are able to grow to their fullest potential and provide comfortable living conditions for its denizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Universiti Teknologi Malaysia vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Wahid Omar said major cities in the region were faced with issues of congestion due to the increasing population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cMajor cities, currently only have short-term solutions without taking into account problems which might rise in the long run for city dwellers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cAccording to a World Bank report, Kuala Lumpur lost about RM30bil in revenue as city dwellers were losing out on their productivity level being stuck in traffic congestion daily,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content_1_inlineAd\" class=\"inlineAd\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr Wahid said this after officiating the 13th International Congress of Asian Planning Schools Association at the university\u2019s main Skudai campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">He said the urban planners should come out with long-term solutions, in anticipation of the population booming, in cities following the migration of rural folk into urban areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cImprove on the public transportation system and services to make cities liveable for its inhabitants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cCities should not be urban concrete jungles with skyscrapers,\u201d added Dr Wahid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">He said there should be ample open space and green lung for residents in the city and the town planners should look a creating a balance between nature and modernisation in the planning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cWe are not against development within the city areas but developers must follow the guidelines in the plans drawn up by local agencies,\u201d said Dr Wahid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/Metro\/Community\/2015\/08\/17\/Longterm-solutions-needed-Dr-Wahid-Urban-planners-must-cater-for-population-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Star Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHOR BARU: Long-term planning is needed to ensure that urban areas are able to grow to their fullest potential and provide comfortable living conditions for its denizens. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Wahid Omar said major cities in the region were faced with issues of congestion due to the increasing population. \u201cMajor cities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":16763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-slider","category-in-the-press","category-news","category-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/facelift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}