THE POTENTIAL OF URBAN FOREST PARK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITY

Author

Noralizawati Mohamed, Noriah Othman, Mohd Hisham Ariffin

Abstract

The potential of Urban Forest Park and publics' views are clearly pertinent in urban greening and sustainability, yet they are often ignored by certain countries. In line with this, the Town and Country Planning Department and National Landscape Department had taken steps by developing more urban parks and urban forest parks to enhance the quality and sustainability in urban environment. The study was conducted at FRIM
(Forest Research Institution of Malaysia) with 375 respondents participated in this study. It is found that the respondents' evaluation on environmental, social and physical contribution at study area is associated with great and intense values for city sustainability. Public opinion and reason to come to the study area should be taken into account by professionals since they are the users and responsible to ensure the
sustainability of urban forest for future generation. Even though the overall percentage of survey showed that public gave good expectation, however, the small percentage could be an eye opener as they assumed the existing setting will face big challenge to sustain in the future.

Keywords

urban forest; urban park; city sustainability; environmental evaluation

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21837/pmjournal.v10.i3.101

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