Leisure Preference For People Place At Shopping Malls In Kuala Lumpur And Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

shopping and leisure. In view of much effort implemented to create conducive shopping and leisure environment, the performance of shopping mall also depends on the efficiency of its facilities. For that matter, this research has focused on the facility for people to relax and engage in leisure ac...

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Main Author: Hamat, Sufian
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/45590/1/SUFIAN%20BIN%20HAMAT_HJ.pdf
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description shopping and leisure. In view of much effort implemented to create conducive shopping and leisure environment, the performance of shopping mall also depends on the efficiency of its facilities. For that matter, this research has focused on the facility for people to relax and engage in leisure activities termed as “People Place” determined based on anticipation that its function is one of the contributing factors to the present state of shopping mall. The research attempted to achieve three objectives: The first objective seek for people’s conviction on the needs to provide a people place at shopping mall. The second objective wanted to identify people’s preferred planning and design measures implemented in the existing people place and the third objective wanted to identify people’s preferred planning and design measures for future development of the facility. The research identified 4 shopping malls with suitable people place as case studies and adopted the quantitative approach with the use of survey interview method based on questionnaires. A total of 404 people had participated in the survey and the data were analyzed with the use of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science Software) aiming to uncover opinions and preference of the people. The results for objective 1 indicated that most people had preferred the provision of people place for people to rest and conduct leisure related activities. The results for objective 2 indicated the top preferred measures in the design of the existing people place were the easy recognition of the facility as public space, the overall aesthetics appearance and the high level of brightness of the place.
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spelling usm.eprints-455902019-10-08T02:37:25Z http://eprints.usm.my/45590/ Leisure Preference For People Place At Shopping Malls In Kuala Lumpur And Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Hamat, Sufian TH1000-1725 Systems of building construction shopping and leisure. In view of much effort implemented to create conducive shopping and leisure environment, the performance of shopping mall also depends on the efficiency of its facilities. For that matter, this research has focused on the facility for people to relax and engage in leisure activities termed as “People Place” determined based on anticipation that its function is one of the contributing factors to the present state of shopping mall. The research attempted to achieve three objectives: The first objective seek for people’s conviction on the needs to provide a people place at shopping mall. The second objective wanted to identify people’s preferred planning and design measures implemented in the existing people place and the third objective wanted to identify people’s preferred planning and design measures for future development of the facility. The research identified 4 shopping malls with suitable people place as case studies and adopted the quantitative approach with the use of survey interview method based on questionnaires. A total of 404 people had participated in the survey and the data were analyzed with the use of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science Software) aiming to uncover opinions and preference of the people. The results for objective 1 indicated that most people had preferred the provision of people place for people to rest and conduct leisure related activities. The results for objective 2 indicated the top preferred measures in the design of the existing people place were the easy recognition of the facility as public space, the overall aesthetics appearance and the high level of brightness of the place. 2012-02 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/45590/1/SUFIAN%20BIN%20HAMAT_HJ.pdf Hamat, Sufian (2012) Leisure Preference For People Place At Shopping Malls In Kuala Lumpur And Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Leisure Preference For People Place At Shopping Malls In Kuala Lumpur And Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
title Leisure Preference For People Place At Shopping Malls In Kuala Lumpur And Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
title_full Leisure Preference For People Place At Shopping Malls In Kuala Lumpur And Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
title_fullStr Leisure Preference For People Place At Shopping Malls In Kuala Lumpur And Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Leisure Preference For People Place At Shopping Malls In Kuala Lumpur And Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
title_short Leisure Preference For People Place At Shopping Malls In Kuala Lumpur And Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
title_sort leisure preference for people place at shopping malls in kuala lumpur and petaling jaya malaysia
topic TH1000-1725 Systems of building construction
url http://eprints.usm.my/45590/1/SUFIAN%20BIN%20HAMAT_HJ.pdf
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