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Back Lanes as Social Spaces in Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: The back lane is often associated with annoying, disgusting, narrow and dark. This paper concerns the use of the back lanes of the old shop houses in China Town, Kuala Lumpur. The instruments used in collecting data include observation, unstructured interview and literature review. The use and physical characteristics of back lanes were identified. It was found that the back lanes of China Town in Kuala Lumpur showed the success of turning back streets into lively alleys. Thus, the back lane could be considered as part of urban design strategies and not as leftover spaces.

Source: Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal

DOI: 10.21834/e-bpj.v1i3.373

Authors: Wan Hashimah Wan Ismail, Low Hui Ching

Institutions: National Taiwan University, University of Technology Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi MARA

Language: English

Topic: Architectural and Urban Studies

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia