THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

PROJECT 1: PART 1: STAGE 2

Name: Kee Ting Ting

Student ID: 0310019

Lecturer: Mr. Lam Shen Fei

PROJECT PART 1: STAGE 2

A mature and thriving township at the heart of Puchong. It accommodates as a residential town for three major cities, Kuala Lumpur, Subang Jaya and Petaling Jaya. Bandar Puteri Puchong is a township situated at in Puchong, Selangor. Within an extraordinary catchment of a proximately 600,000 people. Inside the township is a hustle and bustle business focus loaded with a mixture of organizations and administrations, including numerous significant banks, a mixed bag of diners, a commercial centre, and a hypermarket.

As Jane Jacobs mentioned, " To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts, one of the conditions is indispensable: The district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones so that they vary in the economic yield they must produce. This mingling must be fairly close-grained." The third condition put forwards by Jacobs has to do with the buildings in the area. There must be a mixture of old and new buildings. New buildings represent construction costs, which are verified by the higher rents in the area. Old buildings represent lower rents. This has implications for the kinds of commercial establishments that can exist in the neighborhood. The mixture of old and new buildings is then an economic necessity. The mixture is likewise required for purposes of diversity, both essential and auxiliary. Certain neighborhoods that have this mixture are more effective than other neighborhoods since they have more mom and pop type businesses that lead to more public figures that watch the streets of the neighborhoods.

Jane Jacobs argues that the ordinary old buildings are the essential to the ongoing economic health of a city. As to relate it back to the condition of Bandar Puteri, the Giant supermarket, CIMB, the Columbia Hospital and Puteri Mart (a wet market), all these ordinary old buildings will be gathered as the essential to the ongoing economic health because of the populations of users as well as they are also the landmarks in Bandar Puteri. The residential areas which are Puteri 1, Puteri 2, Puteri 4, Puteri 5 and Puteri 7 are the another .Theses places are the affordable places for the people in Bandar Puteri, whereas in the upcoming project, those new places are the one she mentioned, the new building that defines as relatively high overhead. There will have no problem for those chain stores, chain restaurants and banks to support such high overheads as these enterprises have high profit on or, well subsidized. In another way of saying that, aged buildings rent cheaper or sell in cheaper price compare to that necessarily required by new building.

Relevant Drawing/ Pictures:

From Google Map:

Master Plan

References:

Jacobs, J. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York.

Location.(n.d.). Retrieved April 3, 2015, from http://www.ioiproperties.com.my/Bandar-Puteri-Puchong/