This document provides a case study comparing the built environments of urban, suburban, and rural areas. It describes Stadium Merdeka in urban Kuala Lumpur, the well-developed suburban area of Bukit Jelutong near Shah Alam, and the traditional rural Kampung U6 village near Subang airport. Key differences noted are population density, building types, infrastructure development, availability of nature/landscape, and conditions of buildings and infrastructure between the three settings.

1. Element of Built Environment
Case Study
By Yee Algel, Thun Shao Xun, Leong Shun Qi and Yvonne
Chin.

2. Urban
Stadium Merdeka

3. Urban?
• High population density
• Well developed
• Mostly commercial building
• Majority are high rise building

4. Stadium Merdeka
• A sport stadium
• Located at Jalan Maharajalela, Kuala Lumpur.
• Building where Malaysia's declaration of independence on 31 August 1957.

5. Infrastructure
Well developed and completed infrastructure such as:
•Street light
•Flyover
•Traffic light
•Monorail
•etc

6. Landscape and Nature
• very little landscape and nature are available
• Concrete jungle

7. Sub-urban
Bukit Jelutong

8. Bukit Jelutong
• an upscale suburb of Shah Alam
• mostly low-density bungalows and duplex and terrace houses
• developed by Guthrie Property Holding Berhad (GPHB), a subsidiary
company of Sime Darby.

9. Buildings
• Commercial buildings.
• Industrial buildings.
• Residential building.

10. Infrastructure
• Bus-stop
• Road sign
• Traffic light
• Recreational area
• Etc.

11. Landscape, Space
and Nature
•Bukit Jelutong has abundance of beauty landscape and nature.
•The space of this area is well organized.
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12. Example of
nature and landscape

13. Rural
Kampung U6
• Kampung U6 is located in Shah Alam near the previous airport, Subang
airport.
• Near our suburban area, Bukit Jelutong
• Traditional kampong or small village.
• Population approximately 1000 people.
• Less developed compare to urban and sub-urban area.

14. Buildings
Mostly are old buildings.
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• Don’t have any renovation.
• Some are in poor condition.
• Only a few commercial buildings
• Mostly are hardware shop
• Not much educational or any
•
religious building
Can’t find any particular parking
lot.

15. Infrastructure
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Rarely found due to the less development from the
authorities
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Roads, electricity supplies, telecommunication and
other infrastructure services are limited in all rural
areas
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Some of the infrastructure are in poor condition.
The bus stop shown in the figure is in poor condition.

16. Infrastructure
Only a few infrastructures such as
•Traffic light – ensure the driver won’t crush into other cars at junction
•Street light – ensure the cars driven at night won’t involve in accident
•Signboard – show the direction to somewhere
•Bus stop – accommodate the resident to everywhere
•Chevron (Arrowhead) – remind the driver to drive carefully

17. Space, Nature and Landscape.
• Rural areas have more empty and
undeveloped lands
• These lands are remain nature.
• Most of it are still forests and even
plantations
• Due to less development, there are
a lot of rocky road