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Innovative My Foot

Innovations to lift Malton brand profile By Angie Ng
MALTON Bhd, in working towards raising its brand profile, will build more innovative residential projects, including gated communities in the Klang Valley, to cater to the growing interest in such homes. According to Malton sales and marketing director Steven Lim, the group will focus on launching more innovative properties at affordable prices.

I almost choked to death when I read this article. I dun want to sound like a bastard, but Mr Steven Lim, gated communities is anything BUT NEW. You really cannot call this ‘innovative’. It was the Tan & Tan and SP Setia who first doing that in Malaysia. ALSO, the New Yorker started doing it 1950s ….

If I may remind him, it is 2005 this year.

Ahem…..

Sprawl is the biggest enemy of urban planning. If you go to places like Kepong, Sri Damansara, Cheras and Ampang etc, urban planning is almost non-existence.

You might say, ah…how about Sri Hartamas? If you put your hand over your heart (or somewhere else), you would say – IT IS THE SAME. It is just more high class kind of Sprawl.

Where is the community center? Where is the park? Where is the need-based shopping area? When is the place where people can interact and communicate? Where is the WET market? Where is the eye-ball street level safety? Where is the security?

I have been working in various brothels in various countries. I am sad to say that Malaysia has one of the worst urban (and suburban la) planning. Even the Damansara Utama/Perdana/Mutiara are not well planned.

Ok, lets give credit to where it is due. The Desa Park, Sentul West and East and North Hammork etc are decent projects. But that is IT.

I have a dream. I dream that one day, Tun people, Tan Sri people, Datuk people, YB people can alllllllll wake up and look into our community problems…..

Junior

posted by Junior @ 11:52 AM