1. Faculty of Engineering
Department of Civil &
Structural Engineering
SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN
supervisor:Ir. Dr. Riza Atiq Abdullah O.K. Rahmat
Done by:
 Hassan ahmed h. hassn P 64139
 Sarah Hazim P 65407
 Malek m a algadi P 64143

2. Kajang, with a population of 229,655 (as of 2008), is a city in
the eastern part of Selangor, Malaysia. This town is also the
district capital of Hulu Langat. It is located about 20
kilometers south of Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur.
The current location gravity of growth in Kajang would be
Sungai Chua. The total population of Kajang has grown
rapidly in the past few years. As of 2004

4.  A few townships have
been developed in
Kajang, such as Taman
Prima Saujana, Taman
Kajang Perdana, and
Taman Sepakat Indah
(Sungai Chua). Area
surrounding these new
townships is easily
accessible via the SILK
Expressway

5. the agriculture is the largest land use component for
all area under Majlis Perbandaran Kajang. But, at
the centre of Kajang Town, the land uses more on
Community Facilities component. Many
residential areas at the edge of town.

6. Commercial Area
 Commercial lands use growth more at the city centre
of Kajang. But, there also have some commercial lands
use near residential area. The growth area of Kampung
Sungai Chua has had respectable increase in industrial
and commercial lands use.

7. Development Strategies
1-Decrease the working, living and business
environment of the city centre
2-Ensure complete and integrated city linkages
3-Ensure the functional distribution of centers and
facilities
4-Consolidate the development and enhance the
environment of stable areas
5-Consolidate the development and enhance the
environment of major entry points

8. LANDSCAPE AND BIODIVERSITY
 In Kajang Town, there are places that do not
have any landscape and also have some
landscape. Even there have some landscape at
certain place, it still not enough to sustain the
Earth. The landscape at town also not
protected

9. Ecological Diversity
 Kajang has a small of species of plants means less variety of
crops and small species of animals not ensure that the
ecosystem is naturally sustained. These flora and fauna have
no place to go and most of the place was replaced with
building and roads or other facilities

12. Development Strategies
1-Do not disturb the reserved forest
2-Planted forest at undeveloped land areas
3-Do the landscape at town and home
4-Build more recreation garden
5-Build a garden for those have big yard at
home

13. SECURITY AND SAFETY
 The provision of a secure and safe
environment for its residents is a
significant concern of any major city.
In Kajang, more crime like robbery
activities and pick pocket. Police
station is supplemented by police
posts and in addition, there is a
system of neighborhood watch
centre. To improve safety in the
city, the Malaysian Crime Prevention
Foundation launched the Safe City
Programmed where the communities
themselves participate in ensuring the
security of their areas. Security and
emergency facilities include police
station, police posts, neighborhood
watch centers and fire station.

14. SECURITY AND SAFETY
 There have some places
in Kajang that have less
safety like in Kajang
Town. It is because
many illegal residents
that live at Kajang.

15.  1-Ensure a safe and healthy living environment that can
cater for the need for all groups of people including the
disabled, the disadvantaged and the aged
 2-Kajang shall, in consultation with the appropriate
authorities, ensure that sufficient police stations, police
posts, and neighborhood watch centers are provided and
adequately distributed
 3-Place the closed-circuit television (CCTV) at the place
that always happen crime activities
 4-The residents must have civic intention and always help
people when they in difficult situation
 5-The Local Authority Party must do their own job
 6-Build overhead bridge for pedestrians

17. RENEWABLE ENERGY
 Up to this day, no renewable
energy at Kajang. This is
because the residents do not
exposed about the
importance of renewable
energy and how extreme our
earth if global warming
keep on increasing.

18.  1-Build the planted forest at vacant land
 2-Protect the forest at Hulu Langat District and Hulu
Semenyih District area
 3-Every resident are encourage to do landscape at yard
of their house
 4-Turn off the light if no one in room and when not
needed
 5-Use compact fluorescent light bulbs to replace the
lamp because these bulbs can produce same amount of
light but using quarter of electricity only

20. INTEGRATING TRANSPORT AND
DEVELOPMENT : Train Commuter
 In Kajang, the main important modes of transportation to
the Kuala Lumpur City Center is using the train commuter.
Due to some circumstances, the location of the commuter
station is not strategic enough. It is located in front of a
school.
 It is hard for the user to get to the commuter station unless
they have transport to get them there. The availability of
taxis and buses are unreliable from the Kajang town.
Furthermore, during peak hour, the traffic here will be very
congested due to the existing school in front of the
commuter station. This could be very dangerous to the
commuter’s passenger as well as the school children.

22.  In Kajang town, there
are several major buses
that operate here.
Among the best is Rapid
KL. But, there are not
even single bus stands in
the town itself. Most of
the time, the driver of
the bus will drop the
passenger in the middle
of the main road.

23.  The main problem here is that
when the bus stopped, the
passenger will have to dare to
risk their life to cross the road
in order to get to the shopping
complex nearby. During any
time of the day, the road was
very busy and the drivers
sometimes reckless. If they did
not carefully enough, they will
hit the bus passenger when
they cross the road. Besides
that, when the bus were
parked beside the main
roads, it will cause massive
traffic jam to the Kajang town.

24.  In Kajang, taxis do have
specific taxi stand. But due
to the excessive taxis
lately, all those were
parked just beside the
major road. This had cause
several difficulties to other
road users

25.  1 Commuter is the main modes of transportation to the
Kuala Lumpur city, so the station should be located nearer
to the city so that the user would not have problems getting
to the station.
 2 The school authorities should provide a traffic guard in
front of the school during peak hour to make sure the safety
of the school children
 3 If possible, the town council of Kajang should provide a
bus station in the city so that the bus would have a proper
bus station and the level of services would be increased.
 4 Proper bus stand should be constructed along the way
from out of Kajang to the city especially from Bangi because
there are a lot of potential visitors from here due to the
existing of educational institution such as UKM.

26. Travel Demands (High travel demand to and
from Kajang town during peak hour and
weekend)
 Increased into and out migration have both contributed to
the present traffic congestion in the Kajang town. It is also
significant that the population have grown rapidly by the
past few years due to the incoming of the legal and illegal
immigrant.
 Apart from that, the high travel demand has increased due
to private transportation especially private cars. As the
consequences, the congestion had worsened during peak
hour where the capacity is very high. This is the time where
people come back from work to go home.

27.  Traffic management are aimed at optimizing the existing
infrastructure and improve the flow capacity and to be
more responsive to the traffic demand at different times of
the day. Besides that, traffic control measures that
contribute to the traffic management in urban area
including one-way street system and penalties for illegal
on-street parking. Additional measures that relates to the
road safety are through the use of traffic signage, pavement
line marking and barriers.
 Although a lot of traffic management measures have been
done and to make it easy for the road user, but it is still not
enough to help reduce the traffic congestion. This is
because the traffic demands have continuously increased
by day.

29. Pedestrians
 In Kajang, the pedestrian networks were not
progressively implemented in the town. There are not
single pedestrian bridges in town. There were also no
zebra crossings around the town. These make it hard
for the people to cross the road during peak hour. The
feelings of being hit by the vehicle coming through
were always on their mind.

30.  Cycling has been incorporated into the housing area
and recreational areas. But in the town of
Kajang, bicyclists are rarely seen. The conditions make
it hard for the people to cycle under the hot burning
sun. Sometimes, only the construction workers were
seen using the bicycle.

31.  Cycling in Kajang are quite
dangerous. With all those
buses and private transport
on the roads, plus the
unreliable condition on the
road, making it dangerous
for to use bicycle in Kajang
town.
 Using motorcycles in
kajang more than bicycles
but its dangerous too and
most of car drivers blame
motorcyclists

32.  Recent traffic condition shows that
the registered car owner had
increased due to the decreasing of
world’s oil price. In most of the
traffic capacity, private cars account
for the largest percentage of all the
motorized trips. The Kajang council
had taken extra actions in order to
reduce the number of private cars
enter the town of Kajang. Among the
actions are to reduce the number of
parking lots and to increase the rate
of parking charges to the shopping
complex.

33.  Due to the increase of parking charges, the park
operators offers seasonal parking tickets which are
cheaper. This had encouraged the using of private
transport to the town. The willingness to wait for
hours if the car parks are full is also the factors that
make this problem unsolvable.

34. 1-Redirecting the movement pattern of using the private transport to the
public transport.
2-Improving the quality and as well as extending the services for public
transport especially commuter trains and local buses
3-Improve the traffic management system by implementing the smart
system.
4-Lower the traffic speed limits
5-Smaller corner turning radii
6-Cultivation of green strips and green trees.
7-Improving the access to toilet or washing facilities.
8-Ticker gate at commuter station for the disabled.
9-Wide doors for lifts.
10-Elevators control buttons positioned at heights that are accessible to
wheelchair users.
11-Increased the parking charges in town
12-Reduce number of parking in the Kajang town
13-Increase the price of vehicles sold in Malaysia and also decreases the
number of imported cars and motorcycles.
14-Cashing out subsidies and unbundling pricing

36. Urban design principles combine aspects of
architecture, landscape architecture. Public
works, transportation system and public arts to
create dynamic urban environment. However
with increasing activities of these disciplines, it
is better to conceptualized as a design practice
that intersects all of the aspects.

37. Corridors and gateways
 The street to the outer district from Kajang is quite
confusing. The signage and road network were not
properly designed
 This condition needed to be overcome in order to
promote Kajang internationally

38.  In Kajang, especially during nights, the condition of
the street are quite dark. Lack of efficient street
lighting make it Kajang is not safe enough during that
particular time of day.

39.  In terms of development, there are plenty of shopping
complexes, schools, police station, fire
station, market, hospital, post office and religious
workship around the town.
 As for the residential area, the mixed-income housing
was seen clearly just outside the town center. For
government sector offices such as JKR, Kajang City
Council (MPKj) and SYABAS, all those office were
situated in the middle of the town

40.  During office hour, these areas of town were full with
people, but during night, these places were very quite.
These could make Kajang town a very dangerous place
at night where any possible crime could happen.
 Other problem is that when emergency cases
occurs, ambulances and fire bridges will be having
hard time to go through the congested traffic due to its
location

41. Parks and open spaces
 In Kajang, there are no parks here. The town does not
have green area to be made as recreational parks.
 Lack of green areas
 Discourage the attitude for exercising for the people in
Kajang
 Increase the hot temperature during day time.

42. Landmarks
 One of Kajang's landmarks
is Stadium Kajang which is
situated in the heart of the
town.
 The Kajang Mosque
or Masjid Kajang
 Kajang is famous for its
“Sate Hj Samuri”. But the
restaurant were located in
the middle of busy roads

43. 1-The major corridors that relatives to the building must be
identified preserved and enhanced.
 2-Gateways are the main zones of the Kajang city that could
make people realize that they were entering the Kajang town.
 3-Implementation the suitable hardscape, soft scape street
furniture and signage.
 4-High quality of street lighting creates scene of safety for the
users.
 5-Streets comprise the greatest portion of the town and
dominate the sense of traveling public and the pedestrian.
 6-Require to create flexible development blocks which can
support mixed-use including
entertainment, office, retail, education, recreation and mixed-
income housing.
 7-Design public spaces “ Kajang Theme Park “ and parks which
create memorable addresses and animate Kajang
 8-Installation of fountains, sculptures, water gardens and special
lighting that can contribute to the life of Kajang and make the
experience more meaningful.

44. Shopping
Kajang has a number of new and old shopping
complexes. The Billion Shopping Center in Kajang
town has been around for more than 20 years. It was
located in the heart of Kajang town. Metro Kajang and
Metro Point are other shopping complexes in Kajang.
 There has been a recent boom of new hypermarkets in
Kajang. Giant was the first hypermarket in Kajang.
Tesco Kajang, which is located at Saujana
Impian, nearby Giant hypermarket, was the second
hypermarket. Also, Jusco Balakong is around 5
minutes away from Jalan Cheras of Saujana Impian

46. Education
 Kajang is a town surrounded by many schools, mainly
SMAP Kajang, Kajang High School, SMK Yu Hua
Kajang, SMK Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Kajang and
many more. Kajang High School is reported to be one
of the oldest schools in Kajang. There are also few
private schools located within Kajang namely Sri
ABIM, Al-Amin, and Sri Ayesha

47.  Kajang also has a few institutions of higher learning.
One of the universities located near Kajang is
Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN).
Another, National University of Malaysia (UKM) is
nearby Bangi, is one of the largest national universities

48. 1-Provide opportunities and facilities for residents to
attain economic and social progress.
2-Provide a clean, pleasant, and save living environment
and access to high quality community and cultural
facilities as well as public services that are supported by
efficient infrastructures.
3-Create different types of public transport. For
example, boat to encourage people to use public
transport than private cars.

49. CONCLUSION
As a conclusion, the public participation should
assist in achieving sustainable development in
optimal utilization of available resources. The
concept of eco-partnership which places
emphasis on the concerted efforts of various
stakeholders such as private enter prices, various
government agencies and community based and
non governmental organizations (CBOs and
NGOs) to carry out study activities aimed at
increasing public awareness on sustainable
environment should be promoted and enhanced.
The public should also be encouraged to adopt
the 3R concept of ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.’

50. THANK YOU