Sustainable Communities

Community is defined as a group of people with a sense of belonging for one another who reside in a geographical place. A sustainable community has the capacity for individuals, groups, and organization to take root, grows and endure for the long term. It is the capacities to be generative and enduring and to sustain a dynamic balance between them. Sustainable community is really important to create healthy community between people and environment. One of the character is to design a town, building, plan etc walkabilty to achieve good public health. Planner needs to plan a development especially residential area with recreation space, parks and sports hall. This development is not only to make people more healthy but also can interact people when their using the same recreation place to play some sports. Also the design needs to include many trees so that area can be more greener.

Building that will build in the society must be design people friendly and looks comfort ability with community examples like parking space, school, sidewalks and etc. this interaction between people in community can create strong community not only in healthy but also in education when the people have an good healthy community and life so their thinking is also increased cause of social interaction between communities not only in the cities but also connection between rural and urban communities so can make more smart people in community. One of the issue that can give a problem to create  sustainable community is social networking. Nowadays people just interact in their social web and they created community in that network. This people wont go to make true social interact outside their home but just only sitting in front their laptop just to chat with their community. This scenario are the biggest threats for sustainable community because this social network have pro and contra in term of interaction. This scenario also can make people now are lazy go to recreation area socialized with other people. If they come to recreation area they just use their mobile phone from start till finish. So this issue needs to solve to achieve success in sustainable community.

Sustainable Production and Consumption

What is sustainable production and consumption (SPC)? ok before we discuss more we need to know meaning of SPC. Sustainable production and consumption is the creation of sevices and related products, which is respond to basic needs and bring a better quality of life while minimising the use of natural resource and toxic materials as well as the emissions of waste and pollutants over the life cycle of the service or product so as not to jeopardise the needs the future generation (UNEP, 2012).

From the picture above we can see the SPC cycle that are implement in many sector. SPC in term of development in important thing to achieve sustainable development. SPC keyword is recycle which means we can use recycle item so we are not waste so many natural resource to produce new item. Example in term of landscaping, planners can use recycle item in planning a landscape garden. With use all of the recycle item planners not only minimising natural resources but also can amulet the budget because use the recycle item in the plan. Below is the example picture landscaping with recycle items. architecture landscape can replace many material with alternative item especially recycle item to keep natural resources maintain and not to use them without control.

Old tyre use as flower pots, if all landscaping architecture used old tyre as a pots they can avoid this tyre from disposed by burning which is can give negative impact for air pollution.

Aluminium waste as a chair to replace woods can save many tree become deforestation.

Drink bottle build as gateway have same story like woods as a gateway.

Wood dust as floor acces

*Credit to http://rahsiataman.com

Environmental Conservation for better planning

Exploration of forest for development nowadays is a big issue. These situation showing that humans really need so many residential, estate plantation, industrial area and also deforestation that using so many forest space. This issue need to take serious attention for planners in order to continue sustainable planning idea which is not only plan for human but also for environment and all its contents. Scenarios now seems that people or developer make development randomly so that green area percent are decreased every year and can vanished in the future. 

 

For example planning scenario in Malaysia nowadays, many mega project was planned and build in sensitive area especially in forest, high rise and also in coastal area. Development like this always based on profit orientation only which is their buyers target is from outsiders like Singaporean, Hong Kong, China, Australian and Japanese, impact from government 'Malaysia My Second Home' slogan MM2H. In this case the roles of government should be more firm in dealing with uncontrolled development of this increasingly uncontrolled. While each of this development before start is already come out with various studies such as EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) and SI (Soil Investigation) but development restriction should be there because there are law of nature will change.

This scenario is not only Planners to solve and know it but also for Developers, Politician, Engineers, Architect and others profession need to seat down together to think and discuss to get a better solution for this issue. Development for human is good but development for human without care about others and scarifies environment for development cannot be accepted. This issue is not only for residential and housing development but also for, estate plantation, industrial, tourism and any kind development that effect environment. Agriculture can make in the city, industrial can run at residential area with increasing  more mix used development. Many solution can plan and be thinking for future. Good development is develop area without effected original area but improve that area.

Demographic trends, process, and transformation.

According to Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, demographic is the scientific study of human populations in primarily with the respect to their size, their structure (composition) and their development (change). So at this point demographic is all about human population in some area, about the movement and the size of population. In Malaysia demographic process was started in early 20th century and until now. But for better future planning, demographic trends need to be sustainable result.

 

 In Malaysia demographic are change every year and we can see the change before independent and until now. These situation are depends too many factor that give impact to demographic. As we know, Malaysia now have 27 million population in 2010 and this number will increased to achieve 70 million people in the year 2020. We can said more develop a country more highest their quality of life. In this situation we can see that japan in the earlier 50s until 90s was a develop country and create more urbanization. They also have a highest quality of live so their population are increased but nowadays japan demographic has big changed. Japan now is one of develop country in the world and have strong economic base but their population is decreased and surprised their old people is more than young people. Japan have advantage in their quality of life but the cost of living especially in the greater Tokyo is very high so if a couple married they only want to have one or two children because of cost of living in japan is really high.

This have big difference in Malaysia which is have a positive in demographic. Since independent Malaysia population always increased until now. The main reason is government factor that want to achieve a goal to have big population towards 2020. Also Malaysia have big scale of migration especially migration for work. People from Bangladesh, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Nepal, Philippines and others comes to Malaysia to get a job. Urbanization also one of demographic trends, example National Physical Plan are plans to develop some area with a big city in north peninsular, east coast peninsular and southern peninsular. This plan also plans to build more industries that provided more job opportunities and attract people to migrate not only outsiders but also Malaysian. When economic are stabilize in Malaysia the birth rate are increased and demographic in Malaysia has changed every year. But in Malaysia, Demographic scenario is not only depend to economic factor because in 1997 when Malaysia facing economy recession birth rate in Malaysia still increased. So if some country still are in develop era their population still growth and effect to that country demographic. Maybe in the future demographic trends will change into new factor that effect to population growth.

Contribution of city development strategies as a strategic urban planning approach toward sustainable development

Sustainable development is really need nowadays not only in Malaysia but also another country. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability to meet future needs. To achieve this sustainable development, many way or method are using and one of this method is City Development Strategies (CDS).

A City Development Strategy is a tool that helps a city harness the potential of urbanization. It also enables a city to develop a coordinated, institutional framework to make the most of opportunities. And, perhaps most importantly, a CDS gives residents a chance to have a voice in the future of the place where they live.

The Cities Alliance supports cities in preparing city development strategies that link their economic growth and poverty reduction objectives, often including citywide slum upgrading strategies. Urban poverty is one of the key issues to be solved in achieving sustainable development. This is because poverty will bring other problems in the city such as squatters and crime. So CDS are required in this situation to apply for achieving goal.

For example CDS already use at Douala Cameroon to reduce poverty in urban area. Poverty in Douala create so many problems such as squatters, crime, jobless and these three problem are related each other which means are caused by poverty. People are jobless and they build squatters and when they don’t have a money the make a crime like robbery or as a snatchers to their live. So all kind of this thing is not good for future and for solution CDS are implement as strategic urban planning approach to achieve sustainable development.

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hi my name is Mohd Hafizan Bin  Md Amin and i will discuss about sustainable development planning in this blog.