Visual Landscape Assessment for Development Landscape Structure: Case study at Taiping, Perak

Authors

  • Mohd Zulhaili Teh
  • Noorsazwan Ahmad Pugi
  • Norhafizah Abdul Rahman

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v2i5.698

Abstract

The landscape is an important national resource outstanding natural and cultural inheritance which is widely appreciated. This study attempts to evaluate visual landscape of Taiping District in relations to the larger landscape scale in Peninsular Malaysia. A Landscape Character Assessment was conducted on the visual landscape taken for several points in Taiping, Perak and surrounding area to see changes in the landscape. The aim of this study is to provide a visual structure for landscape classification of the Taiping District area that will contribute to the decision making in development and management in Malaysia. Ensuring the opportunity taken during district planning processes is important.

Keywords: Landscape character assessment, visual landscape, landscape structure.

ISSN: 2398-4287© 2017. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

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2017-03-19

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Teh, M. Z., Ahmad Pugi, N., & Abdul Rahman, N. (2017). Visual Landscape Assessment for Development Landscape Structure: Case study at Taiping, Perak. Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal, 2(5), 231–238. https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v2i5.698

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