TOD’S Station Area as catalyst of human movement and medium of preservation of urban heritage district at Old Town Butterworth

The paper reviews the uprising issues of lack of heritage preservation awareness in Old Town of Butterworth, Penang with an aim of to establish a Transit Oriented Development as the effort in promoting walkable environment for pedestrians thus, highlighting the heritage values located within the st...

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Main Author: Mohamad Azlan, Zulhazriq Haniz
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22192/1/TD_ZULHAZRIQ%20HANIZ%20MOHAMAD%20AZLAN%20AP%20B%2018_5.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.221922018-11-16T03:53:38Z TOD’S Station Area as catalyst of human movement and medium of preservation of urban heritage district at Old Town Butterworth 2018 Mohamad Azlan, Zulhazriq Haniz Historic buildings Conservation and restoration Pedestrian areas. Sidewalks Landscape architecture The paper reviews the uprising issues of lack of heritage preservation awareness in Old Town of Butterworth, Penang with an aim of to establish a Transit Oriented Development as the effort in promoting walkable environment for pedestrians thus, highlighting the heritage values located within the study area. This issue has been caused by a few other minor issues related to the morphological evolution of the town itself which are vehicular domination and site segregation which restricts human movement to the urban heritage area. The study involves a carefully conducted research on TOD’s principle and its suitability and the analysis on heritage building, space typology and preservation techniques. As a result, it is proven that the Old Town of Butterworth is highly suitable and capable in catering a new Transit Oriented environment as its new foundation which will encourage human movement within the study area and this redesign effort will eventually highlight all of the heritage values in the design. 2018 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22192/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22192/1/TD_ZULHAZRIQ%20HANIZ%20MOHAMAD%20AZLAN%20AP%20B%2018_5.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Puncak Alam Campus Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
topic Historic buildings
Conservation and restoration
Historic buildings
Landscape architecture
spellingShingle Historic buildings
Conservation and restoration
Historic buildings
Landscape architecture
Mohamad Azlan, Zulhazriq Haniz
TOD’S Station Area as catalyst of human movement and medium of preservation of urban heritage district at Old Town Butterworth
description The paper reviews the uprising issues of lack of heritage preservation awareness in Old Town of Butterworth, Penang with an aim of to establish a Transit Oriented Development as the effort in promoting walkable environment for pedestrians thus, highlighting the heritage values located within the study area. This issue has been caused by a few other minor issues related to the morphological evolution of the town itself which are vehicular domination and site segregation which restricts human movement to the urban heritage area. The study involves a carefully conducted research on TOD’s principle and its suitability and the analysis on heritage building, space typology and preservation techniques. As a result, it is proven that the Old Town of Butterworth is highly suitable and capable in catering a new Transit Oriented environment as its new foundation which will encourage human movement within the study area and this redesign effort will eventually highlight all of the heritage values in the design.
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author Mohamad Azlan, Zulhazriq Haniz
author_facet Mohamad Azlan, Zulhazriq Haniz
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title TOD’S Station Area as catalyst of human movement and medium of preservation of urban heritage district at Old Town Butterworth
title_short TOD’S Station Area as catalyst of human movement and medium of preservation of urban heritage district at Old Town Butterworth
title_full TOD’S Station Area as catalyst of human movement and medium of preservation of urban heritage district at Old Town Butterworth
title_fullStr TOD’S Station Area as catalyst of human movement and medium of preservation of urban heritage district at Old Town Butterworth
title_full_unstemmed TOD’S Station Area as catalyst of human movement and medium of preservation of urban heritage district at Old Town Butterworth
title_sort tod’s station area as catalyst of human movement and medium of preservation of urban heritage district at old town butterworth
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Puncak Alam Campus
granting_department Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying
publishDate 2018
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22192/1/TD_ZULHAZRIQ%20HANIZ%20MOHAMAD%20AZLAN%20AP%20B%2018_5.pdf
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