UCSI_UnitC_2107_P1_Meru: Urban Morphology

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URBAN MORPHOLOGY GROUP AR.HISHAM Christopher Phang Min Kiat 1001957150 Sami Mohammed Ghaleb 1001746306 Rama Murad 1001748829 Lim Jiang Wei 1001747632 Tee Yi Qi 1001747073 Bernard Tang Wei Kiet 1001953460 Lum Kar Man 1001955427 Al Taib Ali 1001438284

content urban morphology analysis evolutionary or urban mapping urban spatial patterns future developments accessibility analysis road network highways traffic cyclist route and pedestrian public transportation road visibility blind spots & hidden area road issues

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topography analysis contour landform landscape hardscape street characteristics conclusion & suggestion

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poster reimagine a world beyong in meru

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演 变 .

1980- 2000

meru, klang

2001 - 2010

2011 - 2020

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https://www.google.com.my/maps/place/Meru,+41050+Klang,+Selangor/@3.1326235,101.4377209,829m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x31cc5149376026ef:0x369c8154c815153!8m2!3d3.1334027!4d101.4410127

introduction

evolutionary evolutionary diagrams will be explained in the following pages

Urban morphology is the study of the formation of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation. The study seeks to understand the spatial structure and character of a metropolitan area, city, town or village by examining the patterns of its component parts, road, and land arrangement. Typically, analysis of physical form focuses on street pattern, lot and building pattern. The physical form of a city changes over time and social forms which are expressed in the physical layout of a city, and, conversely, how physical form produces various social forms.

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urban morphology transformation timeline 1980- 2000

2001- 2010

the beginning of industrialization

fast growing stage

In the early years, Meru was full of rubber plantations, a large piece of gardens .When Meru was in the British colony, a small village was formed before the Japanese occupation. From 1 to 7 miles, the 6-mile Meru Town and Merukou (currently located in the Chilong Building area) had the highest population density and commercial activities. During that time, there was no decent road at all, only a very narrow bullcar road, which was also a red mud road.

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And now it has been developed into a major industrial area. Central Klang Road is located at the center of Kuala Lumpur and Port Klang, with convenient transportation and transportation, and is well received by investors, including the world’s largest rubber glove factory-Top Glove, which also chooses to set up a factory here.

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2011 - 2020

the purpose

industrial zone with prosperous surrounding businesses

An essential forming element of urban infrastructure is a street whose morphology is directly related to the urban context with various transformations occurring over time and frequently resulting in the loss of historically developed identity and cultural potential.

Current transportation, social and cultural issues of historical cities lead to the loss of originally compositional sustainability that is old functions peculiar to urban environment are disappearing and new ones destroying a street being architectural ensemble are inevitably emerging. Thus, the issue of social, cultural and formally compositional sustainability acquires particular importance under such conditions. Understanding sustainability limits allows governing functional and formally compositional transformations.

After years of time, where multiple highways are connected, and the transportation system has been improved. The housing industry in this area is bound to flourish. Regarding the development of industrial areas, the industrial development on the right is more prosperous, while the development on the left is slower.

“This is mainly because most of the vacant land on the left belongs to Malay reservations, while the land on the right is a freehold. For Chinese developers, freehold land is easier to deal with, so they choose to develop on the right.

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linear - mainly residential housing areas A traditional street is referred to as multifunctional, linear public spaces limited by building sides. They have strict regulation of housing before that is typical for the historical urban fabric today. Such type of street is characterised by house fronts facing a street way and either the absence of spaces of the presence of frequent intervals between houses. Also there were plantations/ palm oil trees that formed the initial layout.

combined - mixed residentials / commercials/ factories The type of a street in the early twentieth century differed by end walls facing a street way and greater space between houses. Yet it was an opened empty lands and without a fixed building layout requirements that leads to actively engaged in urban development. Different type or scale of building specifications also form unorganized urban spatial pattern overally.

urban vacant lands There are still many potentials developing this land. As most of the facilities or infrastructures and provided. Highways, vehicular access are well built also.

organic + planned - mostly new developed residentials

extracting the urban spatial patterns In this stage, we are to understand different urban spatial patterns and their functioning. Defining each different building layout and forming, which could lead to many possibilities in either better or worse urban architectural aspects.

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The developments only started in recent years. A mostly residential area that is well planned in an organic form layout. This spatial pattern still look natural in a way. yet it is beneficial in filling the land uses and build quantity. As this is freehold land, chinese developers are easier to deal with, hence the developments in the south east is more.

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to conclude Revolutionary changes in historical city image that we are witnessing bring about the destruction of traditional urban structures, a street being the most essential one. Destruction processes occur due to urban structures’ losing their social, cultural and formally compositional sustainability that eventually results in the loss of nationally artistic identity.

Rapid and unplanned urban growth in developing

countries, along with the inefficient planning system and inadequacy of political and management systems, led to uneven urban expansion, speculation activity, and peri-urban areas.

The boom in urban population

is driven by natural population growth and the increased rate ofimmigration from rural areas to the cities, which leads to the failure of the rural areas in serving their traditional functions in the settlement system.

The promotion of city life and transition from agricultural to service economy

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changed the urban structures of the compact traditional to low-density and sprawled neighborhoods.

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Newly developed areas are located around the compact cores of the cities while new street networks divide the cities into new areas.

Due to the increased investments

in housing and transformation of the economy from agricultural to service, many rural people in the north west immigrate to south east. new developed residential areas

proposals Create urban boundaries

Urban boundaries in edges of cities will control urban sprawl.

In this regard, only constructing in inner districts will be allowed and urban size will not be extended.

industrial areas

fast developing torward cities area

Redevelopment of inner-core regions

This action causes an increase in urban land price. Usage of lands and enterprising in industrial abandoned lands, blank commercial plots.

Urban consolidation

Urban consolidation has been introduced as a solution for more appropriate utilization of lands and infrastructures in the built up area of a city. It pursuits restriction of using urban lands, reduction of infrastructure costs, and using of more public transportation.

Smart planning

Smart growth or mixed growth could be encouraged by the architects. In these types of plans, the residential, commercial and the workplace are not separated. This saves a lot of space. The planning becomes compact, and living becomes even more sustainable.

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Agricultural development Improving the productivity of agriculture activities to increase the GDP contribution of the State.

Improving E-commerce facilities to cater and support future commercial demand and transaction.

Taman Seri Mewah 2

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Transportation development

top glove factory

Desa Nilam, Residential House at Jalan Paip, Meru

Meru Taman Desa, Meru

Taman Seri Mewah Phase 3, Meru, 41050, Klang Taman Desa Indah, Meru

Physical trengthening the transportation system, infrastructure & utility system development by improve the transportation infrastructure in urban and rural areas to support economic development and people’s welfare.

One of the important future development is the LRT3 rail project (Jalan Meru LRT Station),LRT3 is the first rail project in Malaysia that uses green technology applications including water retention, energy efficient and natural air flows LRT3 is expected to complete and start operation on 2024.

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Industrial development Establish a more sustainable and dynamic economic growth in the industrial sector and improve the current smart economy concept with wider implementation in commercial,like the Development of top glove factory production.the top glove have clear idea of the company’s expansion plans through the end of 2022, and the company also had the total capacity projection by end of 2025 (193 billion pieces of glove at that time).

Public Facilities development Focusing on proposals to increase and improve public facilities like hospitals, schools, recreational and higher education institutions for residents The Education Ministry plans to build a new secondary school in Meru, Klang due to the high density of students in SMK Meru.

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Residential development

lrt development

Providing sustainable and harmonious community living through the good quality of affordable housing and housing development. Enriching lives by providing quality properties and enhancing living and business environment by Implementation of self-help housing programme Collaboration between government sector and private community and many new residential projects like Taman Seri Mewah 2 , Taman Seri Mewah Phase 3 ,Desa Nilam.

Technological development

future developments There are some buildings and new urban development projects planned and under construction around Klang.

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- A smart manufacturing solution that foster digital adoption across klang.

- An app providing simplified suite of government services for citizen’s need.

- New smart waste disposal methods implement of new non-landfill disposaltechnologies.

- An online platform that helps individuals to promote online skills.

- Enhancing app feature which incorporates information on local healthcare services.

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accessibility

meru, klang

Accessibility is one of the most important element to study during the site analysis stages. In this topic, we will study about the main route network of the Meru town, Klang and how could we access to Meru town, Klang with different kind of transportation. Besides, the road visibility and safety of the site also been covered in this topic

In Meru, there are a lot of dead end road consists. This is because Meru town, Klang in past is a town that rich in oil palm or agricultures plantation. The initial layout of the plantation areas are linear. Hence, although some of the buildings have discard the initial urban layout of the oil palm or agricultures plantation field, but most of the buildings of Meru, Klang especially residential housing areas are still preserving the initial linear urban layout.

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road network accessibility

The current road network system of Meru, Klang consists of federal road and city roads. The main road for Meru, Klang is Jalan Meru which located at the middle of the Meru town. Jalan Meru can be travel to Puncak Alam and Klang Town or travel from there to Meru town.

Besides, Jalan Meru also connect another four main road from another town. The four main road are Jalan Paip, Jalan Haji Abdul Manan, Persiaran Setia Alam, and Jalan Perindustrian Kapar-Meru. Hence, Jalan Meru can be consists as the primary road for Meru, Klang.

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traffic analysis accessibility

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Besides, due to the Jalan Haji Abdul Manan and Jalan Perindustrian Kapar-Meru are the important roadway for resisdents in Klang travel to Kapar. Hence, during off work time, this two road will having high traffic con gestion problem.

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traffic analysis The traffic analysis shown is based on the analysis before the pendemic Covid-19 era.

Jalan Meru is the major roadway in Meru town, Klang. Hence, most of the time, the traffic over Jalan Meru will be busy but it would not caused traffic congestion.

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cyclist route and pedestrian pathway accessibility There are not bicycle pathway provided on the site.

However, there are still a lot of workers or residents of Meru, Klang highly used bicycle as their main transportation for travelling. Moreover, the cyclist normally will cycling besides the vehicular road. This will cause many cyclists in dangerous.

The pedestrian pathway are provided along the Jalan Meru. Besides, the pedestrian pathway also been provided around the public facilities such as school or bus terminal.

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Batu 8 Meru

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Jln Iskandar/Surau

bus station(right) bus station (left)

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Batu 8 Meru

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Taman Seri Puteri

T753 hentian bandar shah alam KLG04 klang sentral via meru

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Taman Saujana Meru (Barat)

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Pekan Meru (Selatan)

The bus station is located at Klang Central Station, so tourists from different areas can reach every corner of the city more conveniently. In addition, 4 different bus numbers can be used to easily reach Meru Town. For example, the numbers 704, 703, T753 and KLG04.

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Taman Mutiara KLG04 703 704

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The route of 704 is just a straight line. It starts from Hentian Klang (KLANG) and ends at Utara. 704 has 23 stations in total, as shown on the map, it occupies 16 stations.

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Kilang Komponen

KLG04 703 704

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Taman Perindustrian Able Link

Taman Perindustrian Able Link,

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Klang Sentral, Persiaran Sentral

However, the route from the KLG4 bus shows that it departs from Taman Seri Kerayong, Kapar (Timur), which is in Kapar.

The end point is Klang Sentral Commercial Centre (Selatan).

KLG4 has a total of 27 stations. According to the map, the route of 703 occupies 15 stations on the map.

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Giant Hypermarket Klang Sentral 703 704

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Maybank Setia Alam (Opp)

The route of 703 starts from Hentian Klang (KLANG), which is the same as the route of 704. However, the route of 703 ends at Pangsapuri Astana Alam 2, Puncak Alam (another town).

703 has 59 stations in total. From the map, the route of 703 occupies 13 stations on the map.

Setia Prima (Utara)

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Setia Prima (Tengah)

Finally, the T753 bus has 22 stops, starting from Hentian Pusat Bandar Shah Alam (A) and ending at Hentian Pusat Bandar Shah Alam (A). T753 has a total of 23 stations. According to the map, the route of T753 only occupies 5 stations on the map. It is also the least route in Meru.

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The gap between each street lights are too far and caused poor vision.

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The back alley becomes an impassable and unpleasant path.

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blind spots & hidden area accessibility

Due to the architectural form, improper path planning, and lack of street lights, shophouses and residential back alleys have become impassable and unpleasant paths.

However, the map shows that the route to Sham Alam has more red dots. Because of improper route planning, there is a big gap in the distance between street lights, which shows that poor vision of the road leads to high crime rates.

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Road that frequently facing flash flood issues

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Road crack problem frequently found in the site.

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road issues Based on reserch, the resisdents of Meru, Klang have to deal with constant flooding especially during the heavy rain. Hence, although most of the road in Meru will have drainage system besides the road, but due to the drainage system no bigger enough or poorly-maintained drainage system. There are some of the road will frequently faced with flood issues.

Heavy transport vehicles such as truck, tractor and others are the most usetable transportation vehicles in Meru. Hence, this have caused road crack problem frquently occur at the road.

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topography

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This chapter will be highlights the existing baseline scenario of physical, biological and socio-economical environment of the Meru, Klang. The existing environment is analysed and documented in this chapter to form a basis for the assessment of potential impacts generated from the proposed development onto the surrounding environment

Meru, Klang is a town that rich in agriculture plantation such as rubber plantation and oil palm plantation. Based on the research, land with slopes of 10–20° are the most land slopes suitable land for oil palm production, but land with slopes with more than 20° is unsuitable. Hence, most of the land for Meru are flat with medium slopes found in the there.

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contour map topography

From the contour map shown, there was a steep terrain located at the east side from of the Meru town, Klang.

The steep terrain indicate the Bukit Raja which is one of the popular hill in Klang area and Fairy Park Klang which is the memorial park mostly for chinese citizens.

Moreover, there was no contour lines shown on the Meru town area, Klang. Hence, this have shown the topography for the Meru town is flat and Bukit Raja in east side has help Meru town create positive view.

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landform analysis topography

The landform of the Meru, Klang is quite flat.

The Meru town is located at the low land area.

Most of the high land area is located at Setia Alam and Kampung Haji Mohd Sharif which is right beside the Meru, Klang town.

Besides, there are still few medium height land located at west side for Meru, Klang town. Most of the medium height land is located at the palm oil plantation field.

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landscape analysis topography

Meru, Klang is a compact town. Most of the land have been occupied by the buildings and vegetation. Hence, there are limited land and less strategic location provided for the community facilities Besides, there are still plenty of oil palm plantation field exists in the site.

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hardscape analysis topography

There are plenty of road located at the Meru town, Klang. Hence, we have selected four main road of our site study boundary in order to study the type or material for the selected road. The selected road for the study are Jalan Meru Tambahan, Jalan Haji Abdul Manan, Persiaran Setia Alam and Jalan Paip.

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Pop up detail drawings of these four road will be explained in the following page.

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street characteristic topography

There are plenty of road located at the Meru town, Klang. Hence, we have selected five main road of our site study boundary in order to study the street characteristic. The selected road for the study are Jalan Meru Tambahan, Jalan Haji Abdul Manan, Persiaran Hamzah Alang, Persiaran Setia Alam and Jalan Paip.

A series of collages is used to briefly elaborate the building typologies and the urban landscape of five main streets of Meru. lt be explained in the following page.

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jalan haji abdul manan

jalan meru

jalan haji abdul manan characteristics collage

jalan meru characteristics collage

shop lots / shop houses

commercial ooice buildings

kampung-style shops

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industrial factories

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jalan paip characteristics collage

banana plantations

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persiaran hamzah alang characteristics collage

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persiaran setia alam

persiaran setia alam characteristics collage

modern semi-d houses

commercial buildings / condominiums

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street characteristic thoughts

With the information above, it can be seen that each street has its own distinct features.

However, the urban sprawl problem in Meru can also be easily noticed and is mainly caused by the rapid industrial expansion and the need of additional accommodation for the rising worker populations. In order to cope with the existing needs, undeveloped lands are sold to the local small developers in a small portion at a time to construct the required residential buildings. As the acquired lands spawn at different locations and are in different sizes, inconsistent development has occured and buildings with distinct typologies is built around each other accompanying the existing Kampung-style houses and vacant lands.

The difference in building typologies, underdeveloped and poorly planned urban expansion might cause negative consequences for the local residents and their environment.

One of the main concerns is the increased racial and economic disparity. The difference in urban development creates economic disparity and stratification based upon location as well as racial segregation as minorities and foreign workers are often left behind in the poorest and the most underdeveloped parts of Meru. These locations also often has poor housing which might further lead to health problems and ease the spread of pandemics.

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improvement suggestion

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