Evaluation of walkability and satisfaction in sustainable urban neighborhood, Percint 9 in Putrajaya

Abstract

With the stages completion of the office buildings at the Government Office Precincts, staff have been relocating themselves from the previous office complex in Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya and tend to let themselves as fulltime Putrajaya residents. Thus, with the careful planning of having sufficient housing units to cater the influx Government staff, Precinct 9 is among the few pioneer sections of Putrajaya's new Malaysia Federal Government Administrative Center to reside such an important administrators of the nations. Specially designed high rise apartment and link houses been formulated together the need of the Government staff with the millennium concept of garden city's 'livework'. The completion of the terrace double storey garden houses with the nation's first fenceless housing concept create a unique identity to this new millennium planned community. The study will just simply to study the impact of the designed houses that can be as a model where we think that the initiative of the Malaysian Federal Government in creating the new concept of borderless housing with such a high class accommodation just to cater their Government servants.. Putrajaya is the new administrative Center of the Federal Government of Malaysia. Located strategically within the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), Putrajaya considered Malaysia's first Intelligent Garden City. lt is a model city and as the heart of the nation and become an attractive place to live and work. Putrajaya promises comfortable and quality lifestyles for its residents. With lush greenery, residential area are supported by commercial centres and public amenities that integrated the garden city theme which become an ideal 'live-work' environment. Refer to Figure 1 for location