Author 1: Aiken, S. Robert Author 2: Leigh, Colin H. By 1990 a conurbation will have emerged in the Kiang Valley of Peninsular Malaysia with a probable population of more than two million people. Rapid urban growth has already generated physical and social problems. Soil erosion and flooding have increased, and health problems have been… Continue reading Malaysia’s Emerging Conurbation
Category: Town Planning
Institutional Structures Critical to Development
It seemed at a point that Malaysia’s economic development would be characterised by a shift in emphasis from the development of its ‘hard’ infrastructure to its ‘soft’ infrastructure. The years during Mahathir’s regime could be described as a period where buildings, roads, and airports featured as sources of growth and levers of development. Author: Nambiar,… Continue reading Institutional Structures Critical to Development
Articulating An Agenda For The Decade Ahead
The need to choose an optimal strategy at this juncture in history has exigencies that are more pressing now than they have been before. We do not have to choose one strategy to the exclusion of others, but one strategy would tend to have a dominating flavour. The cost of a wrong choice (or the… Continue reading Articulating An Agenda For The Decade Ahead