{"id":4472,"date":"2018-09-06T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T02:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2018-09-06T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T02:25:31","slug":"utm-town-planning-expert-environmentally-sustainable-cities-get-the-basics-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/utm-town-planning-expert-environmentally-sustainable-cities-get-the-basics-right\/","title":{"rendered":"UTM Town Planning Expert: Environmentally Sustainable Cities? Get the Basics Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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August 3, 2018\u00a0by\u00a0Loon Wai Chau<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Kuala Lumpur, 29 July<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 UTM\u00a0Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying<\/em>\u00a0(FBES<\/em>) Senior Lecturer, TPr. Chau Loon Wai, stressed to a 188-strong audience of town planning professionals the importance of getting the basics right if we were to make real progress in building environmentally sustainable cities in Malaysia.\u00a0 The well received point was made at the\u00a0PLANMalaysia Expert Talk 2018<\/em>, themed \u201cEnvironmentally Sustainable Cities\u201d, which was held on 27 July 2018 at Wisma Tun Sambanthan, Kuala Lumpur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TPr. Chau appeared as an invited speaker representing the town planning academia alongside three other practising town planners in the expert talk, which was part of a series organised by\u00a0PLANMalaysia<\/em>\u00a0(previously known as the\u00a0Federal Town and Country Planning Department<\/em>,\u00a0JPBDSM<\/em>), the highest authority overseeing the town and country planning activities in Malaysia.<\/p>\n

The expert talk was officiated by the\u00a0PLANMalaysia<\/em>\u00a0Director General, Y.Bhg. Dato\u2019 TPr. Hjh. Rokibah Abdul Latif and attended by 188 town planners from the Federal and State level\u00a0PLANMalaysia<\/em>\u00a0offices, local authorities, private practices as well as the academia.<\/p>\n

In his 30-minute sharing entitled \u201cEnvironmentally Sustainable Cities? Getting there means getting the basics right!\u201d, TPr. Chau got the audience to take a hard look at the actual current state of (un)sustainability of Malaysian cities despite countless well-intent efforts spanning at least two-and-half decades by town planners.\u00a0 He then asserted that environmental sustainability is not only about having the right intention and proposing big concepts but is importantly about getting back to the basics, of dealing with issues in real places involving real people.\u00a0 He stressed the need to go\u00a0beyond \u201csustainababble\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and begin implementing small, direct actions in places that would yield real positive impacts on people\u2019s quality of life, for example of delivering urban environments that are\u00a0friendly to children, the elderly, women and people with disability (PWD).<\/p>\n

The talk was concluded with the highlighting of the importance of urban design in advancing environmental sustainability; of integrating planning and design across the national, state and local levels; as well as of involving in a deep way the people\u00a0for<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0with<\/em>\u00a0whom we plan.<\/p>\n

As Co-Director of the\u00a0UTM-Low Carbon Asia Research Centre<\/em>\u00a0(UTM-LCARC<\/em>) and Associate Research Fellow of the\u00a0Centre for Innovative Planning and Development<\/em>\u00a0(CIPD<\/em>), Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, TPr. Chau also took the opportunity to briefly share with the audience major accomplished and on-going research works of the centres and stated UTM\u2019s commitment to continuously collaborating with\u00a0PLANMalaysia<\/em>\u00a0and the Malaysian planning profession towards contributing to better urban and regional planning.<\/p>\n

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