Green space: a view of the KLCC Park. Kuala Lumpur has undergone significant infrastructure improvements over the decades.
URBAN renewal around the world is complicated with all the attendant socio-economic issues that policymakers seek to address and politicians seek to exploit, with the public, even affected property owners as well as residents of the designated urban core, usually left out of the decision-making process.
Malaysia’s proposed Urban Renewal Act (URA), which will oversee redevelopment, regeneration and revitalisation of the urban cores of Peninsular Malaysia’s cities and towns, has courted controversy mainly for the threshold of consent needed from property owners for redevelopment.
