The Landscape Strategies and Usage of Laman Tun Perak as a Pocket Park in Kuala Lumpur

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Hazreena Hussein
Loh Khai Jhung
Heng Zhang

Abstract

Pocket parks emerged as a rational solution to allow access to urban parks within the constraint of limited space. Although small in scale, they are treated as valuable urban green and community assets. Attention and studies on pocket parks are rare, especially in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hence, the research explores and attempts to determine the landscape strategies of Laman Tun Perak and identify how the pocket park is being utilised. Observation, field notetaking, drawings analysis, and interview are methods employed. The research concluded that the landscape strategies of a pocket park are connectivity and permeability, safety, comfort, and activities.

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Hussein , H. , Jhung, L.K. and Zhang, H. 2021. The Landscape Strategies and Usage of Laman Tun Perak as a Pocket Park in Kuala Lumpur. Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies. 6, 20 (Dec. 2021), 65–81. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21834/ajebs.v6i20.398.

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