Urban Community Perception on Nighttime Leisure Activities in Improving Public Park Design

Published Date
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
3 December 2013, Vol.105:619–631, doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.11.065

AicE-Bs 2013 London (Asia Pacific International Conference on Environment-Behaviour Studies), 4-6 September 2013

Open Access, Creative Commons license

Author 

• Mohd Riduan Ngesan ^a,,
• Hafazah Abdul Karim ^a,b
• Syed Sobri Zubir ^c
• Puziah Ahmad ^b

• aCentre for Environment-Behaviour Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Malaysia
• bCentre for Town and Regional Planning Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Malaysia
• cCentre for Architecture Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Malaysia

Available online 11 December 2013.

Abstract

The design of urban public park is an important factor which influence urban community leisure. The objective of this study is to investigate the community perceptions on nighttime leisure activities in urban public park. The questionnaire survey is done in Padang (green field) located in the urban center of Shah Alam and Putrajaya using random stratifies technique. There are four types of variable studied related to nighttime leisure in an urban public park namely comforts, conveniences, safety and nighttime leisure. The findings from this study are expected to show a positive perception of nighttime leisure in urban public park towards urban community

Keywords

Nighttime leisure

urban public park

urban community

urban lifestyle

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