Development of outdoor neighbourhood framework incorporating Islamic values for social community interaction
Malaysia is always dwelled within the effort towards building a stronger and united community. This is also emphasized by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad when he introduced Vision 2020 and among the challenges in the vision is to develop a caring, moral and ethical society. However, there is a significan...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89979/1/FRSB%202019%2017%20ir.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89979/ |
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| Summary: | Malaysia is always dwelled within the effort towards building a stronger and
united community. This is also emphasized by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
when he introduced Vision 2020 and among the challenges in the vision is to
develop a caring, moral and ethical society. However, there is a significant
drop for Malaysia in the World’s Happiness Index ranking. The report on index
of happiness include the level of generosity among the community that are
able to interact and corporate with each other. In relation to this matter,
neighbourhood environment provides the social landscape that indirectly
influences human interaction and develops sense of community. In order to
ensure the right approach for development of social interaction, deciding on a
set of values to be integrated in a neighbourhood design is a necessity and it
can be comprehensively referred from Islam as the religion always emphasizes
on the concept of ummah (brotherhood and unity) as well as the rights of
neighbours not only with the muslims but non-muslims as well. There is yet a
study that incorporates the elements of Islamic values with the outdoor
neigbourhood design as a framework to provide opportunity for community
social interaction. Qualitative research method is applied and the research
involves several processes in proposing the final framework which includes;
expert semi-structure interview to validate and refine the components from the
preliminary framework; and Case study in Putrajaya which includes interview
with Community Representatives and Field Observation to refine the final
proposed framework. Data from the expert and case study semi-structure
interview were analysed with the aid of ATLAS.ti software, and the data from
field observation is analysed manually. The findings show that main
component in the proposed framework is mainly related to the value of khalifah
which includes identification of spaces and facilities that provides active and
passive type of interaction for development of Ummah, implementation of
neighbourhood design and layout, which is guided by principles of Amal Ma’ruf & Nahi Munkar which includes values of taharah, mizan, amanah and ihsan.
The final proposed framework highlighted the design components that reflect
these Islamic values and are validated by the experts as well. This framework
contributes in providing the physical details which entails the values of Islam as
guidelines towards the implementation of the neighbourhood design that
provide interaction opportunity among the community. |
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