Assessment of walkability to community facilities in promoting green neighbourhood concept in urban neighbourhood areas / Diyanah Inani Azmi

The rapid growths of the cities in terms of economic and social development are the reasons that lead to major development problems in most of the country around the world. Many approached have been made to Malaysia in encounter the development problem such as green neighbourhood concept. However, the concept still lacking in certain areas especially for encourage people to walk to reach the community facilities in the neighbourhood area. In additional, there is the need to evaluate the community facilities planning guidelines toward walkability approach. This research intends to fill these two gaps in Malaysian community facilities planning study through walkability approach to encourage more sustainable environment for all. Other than that, this research also supports to achieve the objective of Putrajaya Green City Plan 2025. This research aims to assess the neighbourhood walkability to improve the community facilities planning in spatial and behaviour context toward a 'green neighbourhood concept*. The research was conducted in Putrajaya in two Precincts of different housing characteristic but similar community facilities planning characteristic namely Precinct 8 and Precinct 9 neighbourhood area. Findings show that all four research domains namely socio-demographic domain, walkability domain, community facilities domain and neighbourhood environment domain significantly influence the level of walkability in Putrajaya neighbourhood area. The priorities of each domain are different from Precinct 8 and Precinct 9. Moreover, the findings also indicate that residents in high density residential area (Precinct 9) tend to walk more compare to residents with low density residential area (Precinct 8).