Mastura Adam

Kuala Lumpur City Centre Integrated Urban Development Zone: A New Art of Urban Living

Kuala Lumpur (KL), the capital and premier city in Malaysia has a total land area of 243.7 km2 located within the suburbs of Klang Valley with a total population of 1,556,200 in 2005. Thus, its density reached 6386 persons per km2. Planning wise, Kuala Lumpur is divided into six strategic zones under the Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan (2004–2020). The mega city is connected with the surrounding areas by highways such as KESAS, Federal Highway, NPE, ELITE, roads, and railways (Light Rail Transits and KTM Komuter).

Advocating Universal Design Features for Kuala Lumpur Accessible Tourism

Accessible tourism is where the tourist destinations and facilities provided by the host country or place are barrier-free to all users especially persons with disabilities (PWDs). Kuala Lumpur (KL) being a developing city is still working on providing seamless mobility and improvement on the accessibility to the PWDs when they travel especially after being declared to be barrier-free city in 2010. This study aims to investigate the provision and the quality of facilities accessible by the PWDs in the selected tourist attraction buildings in the city of KL.