Resident’s satisfaction of environmental residential quality in Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Abstract

To achieve quality environmental residents, require measuring residential satisfaction. Qualities of communities meet to needs and aspire habitants and dwellers. It can be enhance to improve the condominium management. The objective of this research is to evaluate environmental quality live place in term of residential satisfaction. We measured the Residential Satisfaction (RS) contribute to evaluate environmental quality of live place of two high rise building condominium Skudai Parade and Mewah View dwellers, Johor Bahru , Malaysia. A questionnaires consisting of 24 attributes that grouped into five residential satisfaction factors including: Safety, Accessibility, Healthy, Convenience and Social interaction. 81 residents were expected their evaluation about five residential satisfaction of their condominium. The Analyisis Hierarchy Process (AHP) multiple decision- making method was conducted to analysis primary data and measuring residential satisfaction. The AHP resulting indicated that the residents who live in the Skudai Parade more satisfactory in term of accessibility to shopping, public transportation, workplace and easy access to other part of the city. Another word, transportation and commercial service are considered as important scale for Skudai parade residents in compare with Mewah View residents. the residents who live in the Mewah View indicated more satisfactory in term of healthy safety and convenience. Welfare and recreation services are considered as important evaluative scale for Mewah View residents in compare with Skudai Parade residents the main resulting of this research is considerable that Mewah View condominium has crated good environmental quality and livable place for their residents by score (1.664) in term of safety , accessibility, convenience, social interaction and healthy in compare with Skudai Parade condominium by score ( 1.026) .