KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 The mayor of Kuala Lumpur echoed an rising theme of the Najib administration today as well as urged city planners as well as builders to attend to open opinion as well as act upon what people wish as well as not what they think people want.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had multiform times previously pronounced that the days of "government knows most appropriate have been over" as well as has been actively reaching out directly to the open around amicable media channels such as Facebook as well as Twitter.
Performance management agency Pemandu has additionally been enchanting open stakeholders around the series of ongoing labs to help delineate open policy.
KL Mayor Tan Sri Ahmad Fuad Ismail (picture) pronounced at the International Conference upon World Class Sustainable Cities here that the proceed taken by civic planners as well as builders must be people-centric.
"I think that as city managers, planners, architects as well as builders, you have to attend more, sense some-more as well as make cities as places for people," pronounced Ahmad in the speech delivered by KL City Hall emissary executive of ubiquitous planning Zulkifli Ibrahim.
Kuala Lumpur aims to be the single of the world's tip 20 most liveable cities upon the planet by 2020, up from the stream in front of in the tall 70's of most liveability rankings.
The goal could be stymied by chronic problems plaguing the city, such as litter, crime, potholes, decayed sidewalks, traffic congestion as well as rash development, that still persist despite countless open complaints.
Some ambitious initiatives have been mooted, however, in the final year, together with the new mass movement complement as well as the River of Life project, that proposes to reorient the city back to the roots along the Klang as well as Gombak rivers by ! rehabili tating the H2O peculiarity as well as revamping the stream banks with the variety of social, residential as well as blurb developments, such as the 100-year-old forest, bike lanes, canals as well as civic beaches.
Ahmad additionally pronounced that KL will be emulating cities, such as Singapore as well as Hong Kong, as well as has built 14km of walking routes so far as well as will allot 15-30 per cent of space reclaimed through civic metamorphosis to parks as well as open spaces.
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