The Emerging Kuala Lumpur Extended Mega Urban Region (KLEMUR): Implications on Urban Prosperity in Malaysia (Kemunculan Wilayah Perbandaran Mega Diperluas Kuala Lumpur (KLEMUR): Implikasi Terhadap Kemakmuran Bandar di Malaysia)

ABDUL SAMAD HADI, SHAHARUDIN IDRUS

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ABSTRACT: About half century ago urban scholars in Malaysia described urban areas and towns in the country as ‘sleepy hollows’, functioning more as extractors of riches than creating wealth for the people and the economic growth of the Malay states. Today the Malaysian nation-state is having vibrant towns and cities promoting growth and modernity, and it begins to grapple with issues related to the rise of large urban regions. The largest is the urban region centering on the Kuala Lumpur city which in the last four decades has witnessed urbanized edges extending outwards in all directions. The relative weights of the region’s importance in the Malaysian urban landscape can be substantiated through a range of indicators including land use changes over time, social, economic, infrastructural and quality of life. The Kuala Lumpur mega urban region with extended urbanized areas on all sides of its border is the outcome of overlapping drivers that coalesce in time , beginning with the world integration of trade on spices in the 16th century, then the integration through colonial investments, trade, colonial intervention and administration, the present integration of the space-time through the globalization process leveraged on by the Malaysian nation-state for accelerating the socio-economic development of the people framed within the developmental state paradigm. Malaysian cities become a window of the rising prosperity. The fact that the KLEMUR is compressed in time and space, there are challenges which the article will discuss.

Keywords: Urban transformation; urban livability; urban prosperity; extended mega urban region; Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia

 

ABSTRAK: Kira-kira setengah abad yang lalu penyelidik di Malaysia menyifatkan bandar dan pekan di negara ini sebagai “kota lowongan” yang lebih berfungsi sebagai penyedut kekayaan berbanding dengan mencipta kekayaan untuk penduduk dan pertumbuhan ekonomi di negeri-negeri Melayu. Hari ini Malaysia memiliki bandar dan pekan yang rancak mempromosi pertumbuhan dan kemodenan, dan mula bergelut dengan isu yang berkaitan dengan peningkatan wilayah pembandaran luas itu. Wilayah perbandaran yang terbesar adalah Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur yang empat dekad lampau menyaksikan perluasan sempadan bandarnya menghala keluar dalam semua arah. Kekuatan relatif kepentingan wilayah dalam landskap pembandaran Malaysia boleh dibuktikan melalui rangkaian penunjuk termasuklah perubahan guna tanah mengikut masa, sosial, ekonomi, infrastruktur dan kualiti hidup. Wilayah perbandaran mega Kuala Lumpur dengan perluasan kawasan perbandaran dari semua sudut sempadannya adalah hasilan daripada pemacu yang bertindanlapis yang digabungkan dalam satu masa, bermula dengan integrasi perdagangan rempah ratus dunia pada abad ke-16, diikuti dengan integrasi melalui pelaburan kolonial, perdagangan, campur tangan penjajah dan pentadbiran, terkini integrasi menerusi ruangmasa melalui proses globalisasi untuk memacu pembangunan sosioekonomi penduduk dalam kerangka dan paradigma negara pembangunan. Bandar-bandar di Malaysia menjadi jendela peningkatan kemakmuran. Hakikat bahawa KLEMUR yang dimampatkan dalam ruang-masa, terdapat cabaran yang dibincangkan di dalam artikel ini.

Kata kunci: Transformasi bandar; bandar berdayahuni; kemakmuran bandar; kawasan bandar mega; Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia


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