Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Document Type General
Publish Date 12/05/2009
Author Mazlina Mansor
Published By ELSEVIER
Edited By Tabassum Rahmani
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Experiential contacts with green infrastructure’s diversity and well-being of urban community

Urban space consists of built-up areas that include variety of land uses in commercial, institutional and residential areas. It also consists of non-built area that is mostly dominated by greenery and open spaces. The non-built areas are the urban green infrastructure. There is  of greenery and open spaces linked by streets, waterways and drainages encircling and connecting urban areas. there are also greenery found on different places like playing fields, pocket spaces, courtyards, bodies of water ,incidental spaces, loose-fit places and other residual spaces, home gardens, and streets are the major green infrastructures in which interaction with nature and with other individuals take place. The non-built areas in Malaysian towns are tropical greenery.  Green infrastructure network in any urban area is significant because it attempts to provide optimal experiential qualities to urban residents and to overcome the negative effects of living in the urban built environment.

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