Melaka Sustainability Outlook Diagnostic : Supporting Report 4 - Shaping a Compact, Efficient, and Harmonious Urban Form
Melaka is a rapidly growing twenty-first century city in transition, increasing its population by forty percent in the last fifteen years in Malaysia. Rapid growth in population has fueled demand for new urban development, improved infrastructure a...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/392841556619334735/Supporting-Report-4-Shaping-a-Compact-Efficient-and-Harmonious-Urban-Form http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31662 |
| Summary: | Melaka is a rapidly growing twenty-first
century city in transition, increasing its population by
forty percent in the last fifteen years in Malaysia. Rapid
growth in population has fueled demand for new urban
development, improved infrastructure and better services and
facilities. Melaka has the vision to become a green city
focused on addressing the important climate change and green
growth agenda. Shaping efficiently its future urbanization
is an essential enabling dimension of this vision for
Melaka. Evidence linking efficient spatial planning and
higher economic density with agglomeration economies, higher
productivity and overall economic growth is well
established. To achieve its economic goal of becoming a
service economy, Melaka must create proximity and facilitate
the flow of knowledge that fosters innovation. The spatial
shape of Melaka must make it a center of productivity, human
capital and greater access to markets. Adopting an
integrated approach to land use and urban planning between
geographical scales and economic sectors is critical to the
orderly development of a sustainable city. This supporting
report elaborates on Melaka’s land use and urban form. |
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