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Housing Woes: Transit-Land Use Integration Is The Key

TRANSIT is interested in the discussion over pricey homes and Putrajaya’s and Selangor’s proposed ‘affordable housing’ schemes on the Malaysian Insider. Note that HDB flats in Singapore are built according to Transit-Oriented Development principles where high-rise residents have equal and equitable access to the nearest bus stop if not the MRT stop. Average house price […]

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Is Greater KL ready to be a livable, world class city? (Update #1)

Update: The Star has an interesting piece on making Kuala Lumpur into a livable city on 2 April 2011 – see How liveable is Kuala Lumpur? and related articles! TRANSIT wants to highlight an excellent opinion piece that appears in today’s and last week’s The Sun on the importance of people-centric planning in creating livable […]