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ENBE - BETTER TOWN
FOR FUTURE
THE MANGROVE
TOWN
Student Name : Chin Vin Yan
Student ID : 0320311
FNBE August intake
2. Content :
1. Introduction ………………………………………………. 3
2. Town …………………………………………………….. 4-5
3. Investigation and Data Collection : Ancient City .. 6-7
4. Investigation and Data Collection : Present City .. 8-13
6. The X-Town ……………………………………………14-22
7. The Conclusion …………………………………………. 23
8. References Link ………………………………………… 24
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3. 1. Introduction
In this projects , our task is to design a better town for the future due to the environment
changed . To design a better town we need to imagine our self as a mayor of the city and
design a better city by using the investigation of the ancient and the present city to
implement the element into the town . In this investigation we need look at how was the
ancient and the present city growth and become a place are liveable . Element likes the
history background , significant of the city could help us to design and apply in our future
town . In order to design a new town , we need give a solution due to the problem faced
today .
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4. 2. Town
2.1 Definition of Town
Town is a thickly populated area , usually smaller than a city and larger than a village ,
having fixed boundaries and certain local power of government . A town is also known as
an urban area which surrounded by the countryside . In a town , we got townspeople and
also we called citizenry
2.2 History Brief of City or Town
First phase - Began between 5 to 6 thousand years ago with settlement that grew into
what we call the river valley civilisations of Mesopotamia Egypt , Babylonian , India and
China . Early on, the settlements depended largely on agriculture and domesticated
animals. However, as the civilisations grew in size and trade routes grew in number, these
settlements became centers for merchants, craftspeople, traders and government officials.
The division between "town" and "country", "urban" and "rural" had begun. A similar path
was taken by later civilisations such as the Greek, Iranian, Roman and the Great
Zimbabwe.
Second phase - in the development of cities came much later with the industrial
revolution in Europe around the middle of the 18th century. Factories needed a large
labour force and a rise in commercial activity created new opportunities in cities. Looking
for employment and a better life, people moved from rural areas into cities in greater
numbers than ever before.
Third phase - began after the Second World War. The largest and fastest growth in the
world's urban population has taken place in the decades since 1950. As the world
economy became more international and grew in size, cities all over the world began to
grow larger at a very fast pace. Most of this growth has been concentrated in Asia, Latin
America and Africa, although some U.S. cities such as Phoenix and Los Angeles have
been growing at the same pace.
2.3 What Make a City or Town
A basic requirement for city or a town to make it liveable is the essential things to survive
likes shelter ( housing ) , water and food . Life in the city or town is more require than that .
A city or a town also need to have the electricity supply , safe way to dealing with the
garbage , transportation and etc. In order to make human more intelligence and healthy , a
city or a town also need a school , place to recreation , museum , sport arena , concert
hall , parks , shop and etc. All of this called infrastructure and handle by the government
but some of it handle by the private sector .
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5. 2.4 What Make a Better Town
Population Density - To make a town more liveable , population density should not be
too overcrowd . To control the population , a better town should have too much high
density building but more mid or low density building .
Money - Many people will moved to the urban area for the high salary jobs . Its make
people drive all the way from suburban area to city just for work . The overcome it , its
need have a small business area in the town .
Crime - Nowadays crime was increasing and safety is concerns from all the resident . To
decrease the issue , police service to be strong enough to overcome the crime , the street
view should not be too narrow and education also need to be provide
Medical Care - A good town always start we the healthy resident . Medical care likes clinic
, hospital and specialist need to be provide .
Entertainment - Compare with the city , entertainment is much more than a town . But a
small entertainment really will bring up the atmosphere of the town .
Air quality - Air quality was being one of the biggest that faced in the big city like
Shanghai . In order to make a better town , we need to have a better air quality .
2.5 What is Future Town
Nowadays many of the places was facing lack of resources problem . Natural resources
like gas , oil , and coal use to generate the power for our daily usage . For me , a future
should have a clean and reusable power supply and reduce the usage of un-reusable
recourse . Next , it need to have a good solution on pollution issue . Its need to provide
green space for people recreation and enjoy the nature as well . Other issue likes traffic
jam also need be love in the future town . In order to fixed the problem , a future town need
to have a well public transportation plan and conveniency to every resident live in the town
. Last but not least , a future town should provide a solution to overcome the natural
disaster for example tsunami , earthquake and etc.
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6. 3. Investigation and Data Collection
Ancient city - Babylon
3.1 History
Babylon is the most famous city from Mesopotamia and it’s
also known as one of the oldest city in the world . City of
Babylon lie on the modern-day Iraq 94 kilometre southwest
of Baghdad . The word of babylon "babilani" which means
"the Gate of God(s)” and its become the capital of the land
of Babylonian . There is evidence that man has lived in this
area of Mesopotamia since the beginning of civilization.
The first records indicate that Babylon was established as
a city around the 23rd century BC.
The Babylon city estimably populated 10000-15000
people in the city . The city street were narrow ,
winding and quite irregular with high , windowless
wall of house on the both side . the street of the city
were unpaved and undrained . The average of the
house was a small one story , mud-birck structure ,
consisting of several roos grouped around a court .
The city also consist Palace , temple , tower , city
wall and gate .
3.2 Significant of the City
The Babylon city consist of some very unique artefact that been left over by the babylonian
which is the Ishtar Gate , The tower of Bable , and The Hanging Garden .
Ishtar Gate - which is current at the Staatliche Museen zu
Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum in Germany . The gate is
serve as the ceremonial entrance to the inner wall of
Babylon . The Gate has reconstructed and giving the
original look of glazed blue and yellow birck with
alternating images og dragons and bulls carved in relief .
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7. The Tower of Bable - is also known as Ziggurate of
etemenanki which mean Temple foundation of heaven
and earth . its located just to the north of the Esgil Shrine . As
the Bible written down the babylonian built the tower to
connect them with the God . In 2011 , an ancient stele with
am image of Nebuchadnezzar II standing beside the ziggurat
was formally published .
The Hanging Garden - its called so because it has plants
cultivated at a height above the ground level . The whole
mass is supported on stone column so that the underlying
space is occupied by carved column bases .
3.3 What ancient City Concentrate
Ancient people is more concentrate on the religion which can be proof by the The Tower of
Bable . During that time , the city does not have any city planning . They built the street
narrowly , unpaved and undrained and they built the houses without any design .
3.4 Conclusion
In conclusion , babylon is a very concentrate on religion city and many unique building had
been built for example Ishtar Gate , Tower of Bable and The Hanging garden .
3.5 Element That Can Use In The Future City
Element that I investigate from the babylon city can be put in the future city is The Hanging
Garden , Nowadays , cities had lake of trees and land to plant tree . For what we can do is
to built a rooftop garden just like the hanging garden on every building in the city . Next ,
the religion faith that we should applicate into the future city . the reason is to built a the
moral that been learn from the the religion to apply in our daily life . By this , crime could
be decrease in the future .
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8. 4. Investigation and Data Collection
4.1Present City - Chicago
4.1.1 History
From the very first beginning of Chicago is discovered by Louis Jolliet
, a Canadian explorer and the French-born Jesuit Jacques Marquette
in 1673 . The very first permanent resident was founded in 1781 was
a trader named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , from Santo Domingo .
The location at the mouth of the Chicago river was chosen for its
strategic value for a trading post as the river connected the Lake with
the Mississippi river. Later the area at the mouth of the Chicago river
was occupied by a military base, Fort Dearborn. The Fort was
regularly attacked by Native Americans, until Chief Black Hawk was
defeated in 1832. One year later, Chicago was officially incorporated
as a town and four years later, when the population reached 4170, as
a city. Its name was derived from the native indian's word describing
the area.
With the arrival of the railroads, the city of Chicago
really started to boom reaching a population of
300,000 in 1870. One year later, disaster struck with
the Great Chicago Fire laying the city in ashes. The
fire destroyed about 17450 buildings, but the
Chicagoans quickly started to rebuild the city. Just 6
weeks after the fire, construction of more than 300
buildings had already begun. And in 1893 Chicago
had recovered well enough to host the 1893 World
Columbian Exposition, commemorating the
discovery by Columbus of America 400 years ago.
The foundations of todays Chicago were laid out by some of the leading architects
reconstructing the city after the Great Fire.Daniel Burnham designed the first visionary
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9. urban plan for a city, the 1909 Chicago plan. It was nicknamed 'Paris on the Prairie' and
included wide boulevards and parks.
At the end of the 19th century the land prices had risen dramatically, which lead to the
construction of higher buildings. In 1885, William Le Baron Jenney built what is known as
the first skyscraper in the world : the Home Insurance Building. Demolished in 1931, it was
55 meters tall and included 9 stories, later extended to 11. It was built with a load-carrying
structural frame, which would be the basic structure for all later skyscrapers. This building
marks the start of Chicago as a pioneering architectural city. Many famous architects like
Louis Sullivan and later Mies
van der Rohe would set new
s t a n d a r d s f o r u r b a n
architecture in Chicago.
4.1.2 Significant of the City
The rapid grow of the Chicago city make it become
the third most populated city in United States , after
New York City and Los Angeles which consist 2.7 million residents . Chicago is also a well
known international bud for finance , commerce , industry , technology ,
telecommunication and transportation , with O’Hare International Airport being the most
busiest airport in the world ; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways and railways
freight entering the region . in 2012 , Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by
Globalisation and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world in the
2014 Global Cities Index .
Chicago was also a most visited tourisms
destination . In 2012 , Chicago hosted
46.37 million international and domestic
visitor . Chicago’s culture includes
contribution to the visual art , novels , films
, theatre , and music , particularly jazz,
blue , soul and the creation house of music
. The city has many nickname which
reflect the impressions and opinion about
historical and contemporary Chicago . The
best well - known include the ‘Windy City’
and ‘Second City’
Chicago also exist some of the most significant architecture in the world . The famous
Millennium Park which serve to the public community . Another example is The Willis
Tower which stand 108 story high , 442 m skyscraper During 1973 , it was the tallest
building in the world .
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MILLENNIUM PARK
LEFT - 1909 CHICAGO PLAN
RIGHT - WORLD FIRST SKYSCRAPER
10. 4.2 Present city II - Kuala Lumpur
4.2.1 History
Kuala Lumpur was discovered during 1857 , 87 Chinese prospectors in search tin landed
at the meeting point of Klang and Gombak river and set up camp , naming the spot Kuala
Lumpur which meaning of muddy confluence . The tin they discovered in Ampang
attracted more miners and KL quickly become a brawling , noisy and violent boomtown
cause of the ruled over by the Chinese criminal gangs . After a few years later , sultan from
other part of malay peninsula appointed a proxy names Yap Ah Loy to administrate Kuala
Lumpur .
Loy had only just established control when local sultans went to war over the throne of
Perak and its tin mines, marking the start of the Malay Civil War. KL was swept up in the
conflict and burnt to the ground in 1881. This allowed the
British government representative, Frank Swettenham, to
push through a radical new town plan which transferred
the central government from Klang to KL. By 1886 a
railway line linked KL to Klang. A year later a new city was
constructed in fire-resistant brick, and in 1896 KL became
the capital of the newly formed Federated Malay States.
During the world war II , British had surrender to the
Japanese forces. Many Chinese were tortured and killed,
and many Indians and British prisoners of war were sent to work on Burma’s notorious
‘Death Railway’. The British temporarily returned after
WWII, only to be ousted when Malaysia finally declared its
independence in 1957 at Merdeka Square (Independence
Square). KL continued to thrive, but its confidence took a
knock in 1969 when race riots between Chinese and
Malays claimed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives. In
the aftermath of the riots, thousands of Chinese were
dispossessed of their homes and the Muslim Malay
community consolidated its control over the army, police
and political administration.
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11. The city officially became the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur when it was ceded by the
sultan of Selangor in 1974. Its mayor and councillors are appointed on the
recommendation of the government, which is
dominated by Malay politicians. There’s little
accountability and a job on the council is
largely seen by locals as license to print
money, not least because KL is Malaysia’s
most prosperous and populous city.
In 1996, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed
approved the construction of a new political
capital 20km south of KL at Putrajaya.
Although only 50,000 of the 330,000 residents
planned for Putrajaya have moved into their
new homes, the budget for the project has
already exceeded US$5 billion. Putrajaya was
made the official seat of the Malaysian
government in 1999. Since the turn of the millennium, Kuala Lumpur has been in the news
more for demonstrations than innovation – city police used tear gas and water cannons to
disperse antidiscrimination protests by thousands of ethnic Indians in 2007 and 2008,
arresting many protesters under Malaysia’s draconian security laws.
4.2.2 Significant of The City
The Most significant of Kuala Lumpur is the multi
culture in the city . Kuala Lumper is a combination
of modern and cosmopolitan capital with three
dominant ethnicities _ Malays , Chinese , and
Indian . Although these races and sundry ethnic
groups have distinctly different cultures and
traditions , Malaysia’s populace gets along
swimmingly. This made the city full of unique
heritage building for example Kuala Lumpur
Railway Station , Sultan Abdul Samad Building ,
Masjid Jamek , etc.
Another significant of Kuala Lumpur is the tourism attraction . Kuala Lumpur is the most
visited destination in Malaysia due to the multi culture , shopping attraction and tropical
weather . Tourist come to the city to experience the different culture of different races and
give a sense of the unique heritage building in the city . Tourist rapidly come to the visit
Kuala Lumpur is also caused by the best shopping destination serve in the city and it also
known as the top 4 shopping destination in the world . In Kuala Lumpur , tourist also
experiencing the tropicana weather and give a sense of the natural environment .
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12. Next , the Petronas Twin tower makes the city
become the iconic of the city . It is known as the world
tallest building in the world from 1998 to 2004 and
remain the tallest twin tower in the world replacing
World Trade Center in New York. The building are a
landmark of Kuala Lumper .
4.2 Comparison
The biggest different between Chicago and Kuala Lumpur is the culture . For Kuala
Lumpur , its got a very colourful culture which form by the different races and culture . But
Chicago its have a very western culture which make it no very unique compare with the
Kuala Lumpur . Next is the history background of the city . Both cities start out with a very
different background . For Chicago , it is a very famous trading city during late 1780s until
today which cause by the strategic location . While Kuala Lumpur is start out from the
mining town and become the capital city of Malaysia .
The weather in this two city also have a very big different . Chicago is a four seasons city
while Kuala Lumpur is a tropicana weather .
4.3 Similarity
One of the biggest similarity between Chicago and Kuala Lumper is the Location . Both of
this city lies at the river side and the river become the biggest resource for the people that
live in the city . Next , is the city full of skyscraper . Chicago had a very unique skyscraper
since 1885 from the first skyscraper in the world until today The Willis Tower . Kuala
Lumpur also got a very unique skyscraper which is the Petronas Twins Tower which is the
tallest twins tower in the world and become the landmark of Kuala Lumpur .
4.4 What Present City Concentrate
Present city is more concentrate on the wealth and planing for the future . Since the
Industry revolution begin in England during 1960s , factory had been built all around the
world without systematic . This cause our environment lack of green and resources . Today
, many places had come out some of the planning to conserve the environment and this
show the human now is more concentrate on saving the environment .
4.5 Conclusion
Present city was facing many problem , and to love the problem we need to come out
some of the solution to safe our environment . To plan a new city we need face many
challenge for example , worker shortage , lack of resources , safety and etc.
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13. 4.6 Element That Can Use In The Future City
First of all , the element that I can use in my future town is the well planing system .
Chicago city is a very good example , planning was stated since 1909 and the city was
continuously grow until today . Next is the colourful culture in Kuala Lumpur that can be
put in my future city . Element like deferent culture architecture design can be put in the
town to make it more unique and colourful . Last but not least is the amazing skyscraper
like The Willis Tower and Petronas Twin Tower can bring out the skyline of my town .
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14. 5. The X-Town ( Mangrove Town )
5.1 Introduction
The Mangrove Town is a new green town which located Sabah , Malaysia . Its strategically
located at the riverside which full of mangrove threes along the river and a few kilometre
from the Kota Kinabalu International which is the second busiest airport in Malaysia . The
Mangrove Town is 20 km square big . Due to the economy crisis and issue been faced by
the cities nowadays , i came out a brand new plan to overcome the issue which is the
Green Tourism Town . This Green Tourism Town will serve more than 10,000 tourist a
years . The Mangrove town will populate around 200,000 resident for living , working and
entertain . The main focus of this town is eco-friendly , and less energy used city .
5.2 Why Mangrove ?
Mangrove trees is a very unique plant which is only found along sheltered coasts in the
tropicana area . Mangrove tree bring out some of the benefit to the coastal committee .
First its protect the coastline from the strong wave or disaster likes tsunami . Secondly , its
prevent salt water from intruding into the river . Last but not least , its retain, concentrate
and recycle nutrients and remove toxicants through a natural filtering process.
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15. 5.3 Zoning
The Mangrove Town had divided into two part which is south area and north area . The
south area is the the centre business district which is most of commercial area , mix use
and the administration centre . While the north area is serve more on tourism attraction .
The north side of the Mangrove Town will cover more residential area than the south area
and the it also have the wind mill farm and rainwater harvesting tower to supply the utility
requirement to the town .
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16. 5.3.1 Residential Area
The Residential Area will be high density building the most . The reason is to not blocking
the river view of the town .
5.3.2 Commercial Area
The commercial area will located more on the riverside . The commercial will having a
lower density when it come closer to the river . This cause commercial area only have low
and mid density building .
5.3.3 Tourism Area
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17. The Mangrove Town will allow the tourist to have different experience when they visit the
town . First , this town giving a very tropicana sense which is planted full of mangrove
trees along the river . Next is multi activities to do in this town . Tourist can visit the wetland
park , The Eye of Mangrove , cultural village and museum . This town also a very good
shopping destination , tourist can buy any thing from here . Tourist also can find some
great hotel and resort in this town . Last but not least , transportation in here is very
convenient to every visiter .
5.3.4 Open Space
The Centre Park
The centre park is also known as
the great green space in this town
will serve to people in this town
with a huge free space , well
facility and high safety concern .
people can do their daily activities
in here for example jogging ,
recreation , walk and etc.
The Centre Park is located just
beside the the Town hall and giving the a great view of the amphitheater , mosque and the
other part of north area .
The Riverside Park
The riverside park is a
linear park which is along
the river of The Mangrove
Town . The Riverside
P a r k w i l l p l a n t t h e
mangrove trees along the
riverside .
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18. 5.4 Transportation
For the main transportation to access The Mangrove Town is using the Speed boat , Train
and Cars . In the town , its serve with cable car , pod , rapid bus , and bicycle for the town
people to work , study and others activities .
5.4.1 Speed boat
The speed boat can access to the Town
Centre from the west and east part . The
Town Centre Port is the main port of the
town it’s serve for the residents and the
tourist daily .
5.4.2 Train
The train will goes at the underground from the
inter-cities to the south of the city . The main
reason the train goes underground is because
to save up the land use for propose other
development and to decrease accident happen
.
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19. 5.4.3 Cars
By car it will access by using the main
highways . One form the south and north
point of the town and another will be west
and east point of the town . From the south
and north point highway , it will pass
through the main bridge which is the main
bridge to access to the both side of the
town . For the east and west point highway
it’s goes by underground and intercept with
the other highway . The underground
highway will also serve as the Stormwater
Management And Road Tunnel (SMART)
to overcome the flash flood .
Stormwater Management And Road
Tunnel (SMART)
5.4.4 Cable Cars
The cable car will connect the both side of the
town to the hill to make it easy to access to the
hill resort . The cable car will also give a
panoramic view of the town .
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20. 5.4.5 Pods
The pods is a vehicles will offer an
environmentally friendly, clean energy
alternative for urban transportation . Pod Cars
are automated driverless vehicles that will
operate on elevated/underground shuttle
networks or traditional roadways in the near
future using personal rapid transit systems.
Personal rapid transit (PRT) is a new public
transportation system designed for swift travel
in congested areas . The PRT will cover all
the area of the town , connect the both side
of the town .
THE PRT ROUTE
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21. 5.4.6 Bus
Bus rapid transit (BRT) will serve at
this town to cover the area of the town
. The brand new BRT system will
operate by the computer and using
the driverless technology to serve the
people . This system will decrease the
accident and giving a accurate arrive
and depart time to all the passenger .
5.4.7 Bicycle
Bicycle is also one of the the
main transport in town . Its can
cover some of the narrow
street of the town . The
Mangrove town will also
provide bicycle lane one every
open space .
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22. 5.5 Utility System
5.5.1 Power Supply
Windmill Farm
Windmill farm will be located at the
lop of the will which is a very windy
location . The windmill will generate
a clean and unpolluted energy to the
town .
The windmill also will apply on the
building in every each floor . The
building will rotating it self following
the the wind .
Solar Panel
Solar panel is the secondary power
supply . It will install on the roof top
of the building to generate this
power .
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23. 5.6 Water
Rainwater Harvesting Tower
The Rainwater Harvesting Tower will
located at the north area of the town
. It collect the rainwater and flitter it
into distilled water to supply to the
town.
RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM
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24. 6. Conclusion
In conclusion , nowadays Malaysia had facing many of challenge due to economy crisis
and Malaysian main focus is on the wealth . People forget about the important of the
nature and polluted the environment . To give our new generation a better future , Malaysia
really need this kind of town to solve all the problem . The Mangrove Town will bring out
the wealth but at the same time is also appreciating the nature . This town has a very good
transportation system to attract visitor to the town . To make this town come true , as a
Malaysia we need to cooperate and appreciate the nature instead destroy it . In order to
fulfil it , different kind of organisation need to work out together to solve all the problem
been faced .To have a better living for the future , we need to balance between the human
and the environment .
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