Urban landscape Planning

Landscape architecture improves urban spaces and the quality of life of the people living and working in those spaces. It promotes sustainability and helps create healthier, more beautiful and more livable neighborhoods. It fights pollutants and encourages city dwellers to spend time outside, which is better for their health and for the community. Its value to society is greater than many can imagine and should be celebrated by the population of every town, city, and country. Landscape architects are involved in the designing of spaces that “creates and enables life between the buildings”.

Flora and Fauna

Forest area in Peninsular Malaysia consists of tropical rainforest. The structure of the low-land forest in Peninsular Malaysia is layered. The layer consisting of scrawny trees, major crown, plant ground and plants that grow on the land surface. Trees at the scrawny layer can reach a height of 60m to 70m. 

Most of these trees are from the Dipterocarpaceae and Leguminosae family. Diterocarpaceae is often associated with commercial timber trees such as balau, cengal, kapur, keruing, meranti, merawan, mersawa and seraya. The main crown layer consists of various plants from different family such as, kedondong, kandis, penarahan and kelat with the height of between 20m and 40m. On the ground, there are small trees and palm which thrives under the crown. In the forest ground, there are seedlings, palms and herbs.

Tropical rainforest in Malaysia can be divided into two classes which are the mixed forest and single dominant forest. Mixed forest like the dipterokarpa forest consists of various plants from different families while single dominant forest is visible in species like lime single dominant forest (dryobalanops aromatica). It is a mixture of different species in terms of the composition of the flora and it changes according to habitat.

Based on the elevation above sea level, this forest can also be classified as flat dipterokarpa forest, hill dipterokarpa forest, top dipterokarpa forest, oak forest and mountain ericaceous forest. Dipterokarpa is a group of trees of the dipterokarpa family which exist in the canopy layer of the forest and the major crown part of the forest. Dipterokarpa forest covers all forest or land at the foot of the hill with the height of up to 30m. Hill Dipterokarpa Forest is forest on the hills between the heights of 30m and 762m, while forests between the heights of 762m and 1200m are top dipterokarpa forest. Oak forest is between the heights of 1200m to 1500m. Forest above 1500m is known as mountain ericaceous forest. 

Malaysia is home to a diverse and rich flora, thanks to its tropical climate and unique ecosystems. The country's flora includes a variety of plants, from towering trees to colorful flowers. Some notable examples of Malaysia's flora include: Rafflesia arnoldii (Corpse Flower) , Nepenthes (Pitcher Plants), Malaysian Rainforest Trees, Mangroves, Bunga Raya (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis), Orchids, Cinnamon Tree (Cinnamomum verum), Durian (Durio), Bamboo.